[MacRuby-devel] UTF8 Strings

[s.ross]

My code receives XML data from a Web Service API call that is in UTF8 encoding. This winds up in a string.

    return_data = NSURLConnection.sendSynchronousRequest(@request, returningResponse: response, error: error)
    str = NSString.alloc.initWithData(return_data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
    puts "******* response encoding it #{str.encoding}"

The result of the puts above is 'MACINTOSH'.

I suspect the encoding of the string is not UTF-8, because when I try to parse the XML using REXML, I get:

RegexpError: too short multibyte code

This occurs way in REXML:

/Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.5/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/rexml/text.rb:132:in `check:'

In any case, my questions are:

1) If anyone has run across this what did you do?

2) Why might the encoding be MACINTOSH and not UTF-8, as specified in the initWithData method call?

3) Suggestions?

Thanks,

Steve
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