[SOLVED] found the answer here : http://yehudakatz.com/2010/05/05/ruby-1-9-encodings-a-primer-and-the-solution-for-rails/ .. I forgot to mention I am using Ruby 1.9.3 .....
so xml = REXML::Document.new(body.force_encoding("ISO-8859-1").encode("UTF-8")) is the right way to handle the response On Jun 11, 11:26 am, Erwin <yves_duf...@mac.com> wrote: > when parsing an xml response ( UTF-8 encoding) I get a parsing error > > response => > "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<rss xmlns:opensearch= > \"http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/ > elements/1.1/\" version=\"2.0\">\n <channel>\n <title>link:http:// > lvh.me:3000 - Google Recherche de blogs</title>\n > <link>http://www.google.com/search?q=link:http://lvh.me:3000&tbm=blg</link>\n > <description>Aucun document ne correspond aux termes de recherche sp > \xE9cifi\xE9s (<b>link:http://lvh.me:3000</b>).</ > description>\n <opensearch:totalResults>0</opensearch:totalResults> > \n <opensearch:startIndex>1</opensearch:startIndex>\n > <opensearch:itemsPerPage>10</opensearch:itemsPerPage>\n </channel>\n</ > rss>" > > parse_rss(response) > > def parse_rss(body) > xml = REXML::Document.new(body) > REXML::ParseException Exception: #<REXML::ParseException: > #<ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8> > > which seems to be raised by the <description> tag with a french text > using accentuated characters... like sp\xE9cifi\xE9s > > is it an REXML bug ? ( in this case I may switch to Nokogiri...) > or did I missed any mandatory parameter in my request ? > > thanks for your feedback -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.