Problem with special characters

Desktop wxRuby
1

Hi:

I am makeing a basic program with wxruby.

Is a frame with a Wx::Notebook inside.

The notebook has two tabs.

The first tab has a grid with 3 columns.

I am using dbi to load data from database, to fill the rows.

But the column 3 that is a description, is not fill when the
description
has special characters like ‘ç, é, ñ’;

But dbi returns the special characters, i create a file to write the
returned data for test.

And when i edit the file the text are ok.

My program is :

require ‘wx’;

require “dbi”;

class BasicGridApp < Wx::App

def on_init

    begin

        @frame = Wx::Frame.new( nil , -1 , "Basic Grid Application",

                                 Wx::Point.new(10,10),

                                 Wx::Size.new(760,550) );

        @note  = Wx::Notebook.new( @frame, -1, Wx::Point.new(0,0),

Wx::Size.new(400,400), 0,

                                    "NoteBook" );

        @TabWindow = Wx::Window.new( @note, -1, Wx::Point.new(0,0),

Wx::Size.new(100,100), 0, “Tab1”);

        @TabWindow1 = Wx::Window.new( @note, -1, Wx::Point.new(0,0),

Wx::Size.new(100,100), 0, “Tab2”);

        @grid = Wx::Grid.new( @TabWindow , -1, Wx::Point.new(0,0),

Wx::Size.new(400,400), 0, “Grid”);

        @grid.create_grid( 40 , 4 );



        @grid.set_col_label_value( 0, "ID" );

        @grid.set_col_label_value( 1, "Avreviação" );

        @grid.set_col_label_value( 2, "Descrição" );

        @grid.set_col_label_size( 24 );

        @grid.set_row_label_size( 24 );



        # connect to the MySQL server

        dbh = DBI.connect("DBI:Mysql:test:localhost", "test",

“er5aa5h”);

        sth = dbh.execute("SELECT iduf, ufdesc, descricao COLLATE

latin1_bin AS descricao FROM uf ");

        contador = 0;

        sth.each do |row|

            @grid.set_col_format_number( 0 );



            @grid.set_cell_value( contador,  0,  row[0].to_s ); # ID

            @grid.set_cell_value( contador,  1,  row[1] );      #

short
description

            @grid.set_cell_value( contador,  2,  row[2] );      #

description

            contador += 1;

        end



        sth.finish;

    rescue DBI::DatabaseError => e

        puts "An error occurred";

        puts "Error code: #{e.err}";

        puts "Error message: #{e.errstr}";

    ensure

        # disconnect from server

        dbh.disconnect if dbh;

    end



    @note.add_page( @TabWindow,  "Titulo1", true, -1);

    @note.add_page( @TabWindow1,  "Titulo2", false, -1);

    @frame.show();

end

end

b = BasicGridApp.new();

b.main_loop();

Can you give my some ligth?

Thanks in advance

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2

I am using dbi to load data from database, to fill the rows.

But the column 3 that is a description, is not fill when the
description has special characters like ‘ç, é, ñ’;

A wxRuby application can display any character of any script - but any
string that’s passed into wxRuby must be UTF-8.

I would guess that your database is using some 8-bit encoding like
iso-8859-1. You should either:

  1. convert your database to use utf-8 internally. This is the best
    solution if you’re able to design it from the start.

  2. convert strings coming from the database to utf-8, using Ruby’s
    standard ‘Iconv’ library, or, if you’re using Ruby 1.9, new string
    methods like “encode!”.

hth
alex

3

Alex :

Thanks is working.

I have a question

descricao = Iconv.iconv( ‘utf-8’, ‘cp1252’, row[2] );

@grid.set_cell_value( contador, 2, descricao.to_s );

What i need make to_s to the result of Iconv.iconv?

If i put descricao wihtout to_s the set_cell_value give error
“set_cell_value: can’t convert Array into String (TypeError)”

Iconv.iconv returns array type?

Thanks in advance

De: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Em nome de Alex F.
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 20 de fevereiro de 2009 16:06
Para: General discussion of wxRuby
Assunto: Re: [wxruby-users] Problem with special characters

I am using dbi to load data from database, to fill the rows.

But the column 3 that is a description, is not fill when the
description has special characters like ‘ç, é, ñ’;

A wxRuby application can display any character of any script - but any
string that’s passed into wxRuby must be UTF-8.

I would guess that your database is using some 8-bit encoding like
iso-8859-1. You should either:

  1. convert your database to use utf-8 internally. This is the best
    solution if you’re able to design it from the start.

  2. convert strings coming from the database to utf-8, using Ruby’s
    standard ‘Iconv’ library, or, if you’re using Ruby 1.9, new string
    methods like “encode!”.

hth
alex

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On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM, (gmail) Alejandro Michelin Salomon <
[email protected]> wrote:

descricao = Iconv.iconv( ‘utf-8’, ‘cp1252’, row[2] );

@grid.set_cell_value( contador, 2, descricao.to_s );

The thing about Iconv.iconv() is that it always returns an array of
strings,
even if you just pass 1 string, so if your just passing 1 string, then
you
need to use @grid.set_cell_value( contador, 2, descricao[0]).

hth,

Mario

5

Mario :

Works fine.

Thanks a lot.

De: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Em nome de Mario S.
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 20 de fevereiro de 2009 23:29
Para: General discussion of wxRuby
Assunto: Re: [wxruby-users] RES: Problem with special characters

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM, (gmail) Alejandro Michelin Salomon
[email protected] wrote:

Alex :

Thanks is working.

I have a question

descricao = Iconv.iconv( ‘utf-8’, ‘cp1252’, row[2] );

@grid.set_cell_value( contador, 2, descricao.to_s );

The thing about Iconv.iconv() is that it always returns an array of
strings,
even if you just pass 1 string, so if your just passing 1 string, then
you
need to use @grid.set_cell_value( contador, 2, descricao[0]).

hth,

Mario

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