# Korean Code Page Support for REXML

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/korean-code-page-support-for-rexml/101755>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 6, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/korean-code-page-support-for-rexml/101755 "2006-02-06T23:24:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![robert.wilder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9bcb4/32.png) [@robert.wilder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robert.wilder)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/korean-code-page-support-for-rexml/101755/1 "2006-02-06T23:24:09Z")

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Hello,

I am working with localized information for several languages (German,  
French, Japanese) and have written a lot of ruby tools to localize my  
software to support these languages. Now I have to add support for  
Korean. Does ruby’s REXML even support Korean yet?

Inside the ruby install directory there dont appear to be any Korean  
code pages in the rexml/encodings directory. I am reading out data  
using REXML from an xml file encoded in a Korean code page (ks c 5601  
1987). If ruby’s xml parsers dont support this right now, will they in  
the near future?

I believe I am using Ruby 1.8.2. Is this support already in the newest  
version of ruby? Any help would be appreciated.

-Rob