On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Max Shytikov <mshyti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jim, Hi Max, thanks for replying. I gave > Looks that you have encoding problems, check your current encoding > > puts Encoding.default_external > > To solve your problem it should be UTF-8. Because according to the docs > http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Encoding.html#method-c-default_external > > *"File <http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/File.html> data written to > disk will be transcoded to the default external encoding when written."* > I checked that out, it is set to utf-8 >> Encoding.default_external => #<Encoding:UTF-8> > Or you can use additional options :encoding in CSV.generate ( > http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.2/libdoc/csv/rdoc/CSV.html#method-c-generate > ) > i'll try this one out but it seems like if i pass the encoding here, all strings passed will be processed as having that encoding right? But anyway, it's the only lead I have so I'll give it a try. Thanks! > > > On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 9:24:01 AM UTC+2, jim wrote: >> >> Hi guys! >> >> I have a company model with a name attribute. Each company is >> association a set of projects. I created a feature which allows users to >> download a csv version of these projects. The download will give you a >> zipped file of all projects grouped by company. So the zip file contains >> x >> number of csv files where x is the number of companies. Everything is >> working nice. >> >> But when a user created a company whose name contains greek >> characters, I suddenly get issues with encoding. Here's a small part of >> the code that creates the zip file (i'm using zipruby btw) >> >> Zip::Archive.open(file, Zip::CREATE) do |archive| >> companies.each do |company| >> data = CSV.generate(row_sep: "\r\n", quote_char: '"', force_quotes: >> true) do |csv| >> company.projects.each { |project| csv << project.name } >> end >> >> archive.add_buffer "#{company.name}.csv", data >> end >> end >> >> so when company.name contains greek characters, i get a filename similar >> to company??????.csv which cant be opened. I can't find a >> way to set the encoding of the filename so I just gsubbed it and ignored >> all non-ascii characters which is fine. But if one of the projects also >> has a greek character, then the csv file will contain weird non-greek >> characters. >> >> Any help or insight is appreciated. Thanks! >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**- >> visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.com >> > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/74A_AKUpG08J. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.com -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
