# Trouble with rexml **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 22, 2006, 9:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-rexml/71770 "2006-02-22T09:02:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 9:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-rexml/71770/1 "2006-02-22T09:02:04Z")
I read XML file using REXML. The XML file contains Korean charactors. If I print the file using REXML::Document.write $stdout, everything is okay.( means Korean is printed out narmaly ) But, if I try again using REXML::Element.text, Korean charactors are broken.( some strange charactors ) ARe there any solution for this? ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-rexml/71770/2 "2006-02-22T15:09:14Z")
On 2/22/06, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I read XML file using REXML. > The XML file contains Korean charactors. > > If I print the file using REXML::Document.write $stdout, everything is > okay.( means Korean is printed out narmaly ) > But, if I try again using REXML::Element.text, Korean charactors are > broken.( some strange charactors ) > > ARe there any solution for this? What encoding scheme did you use? Show me the content of Element.text. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-rexml/71770/3 "2006-02-23T00:55:49Z")
Gyoung-Yoon N. wrote: > > Dear Yoon, Noh might have already helped you out and my suggestion here may not be relevant, but I wonder what method, e.g. puts, print or p, you used to print the return of element.text. The element.text method only returns text data but doesn’t print. (You can see something on the console if you are using something interactive, but it may not appear as the string you expected.) Have you tried like these lines? $stdout.puts element.text and $stdout.puts element.to\_s The $stdout.puts method shows the character string obtained from the object (the return value of element.text or element.to\_s in the cases above). Some others like p element.text may not show the string you expected, but it does show a representation of the object which is not necessarily a character string. cheers, nori ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-rexml/71770/4 "2006-02-23T07:28:22Z")
On 2/23/06, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I think it may be a problem of REXML. > If I print [element].to\_s, the string is already broken. > > Are there another XML library for RUBY? What did they look like? Show the result of “p element”, for example: irb(main):011:0\> puts Iconv.iconv(‘utf-8’, ‘euc-kr’, “\267\347\272\361”).first ç?·â?¤í?¬ =\> nil irb(main):012:0\> p Iconv.iconv(‘utf-8’, ‘euc-kr’, “\267\347\272\361”).first “\353\243\250\353\271\204” =\> nil Anyone who willing to reply your question, need to see the internal representation of the broken strings like latter form. Actually, that’s not broken. Don’t lose hope. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-rexml/71770/5 "2006-02-23T02:29:15Z")
I think it may be a problem of REXML. If I print [element].to\_s, the string is already broken. Are there another XML library for RUBY?