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    <p>I'm using Watir to fill out a text_field with the html-code that I have scraped with another program before.</p> <p>The language of the website-content that I'm transfering is German, so there are some special characters involved, that don't exist in the English alphabet.</p> <p>Those characters are displayed properly in the html-file, but when transfered into the text_field of the Joomla installation (I'm transfering a website to Joomla with this program), the special characters are not displayed properly.</p> <p>As the result of a users great help, I have been able to solve a previous problem and am now transfering the content with the following method:</p> <pre><code>browser.text_field(:id =&gt; "text").value=(open('my-site.html') { |f| f.read }) </code></pre> <p>The result was, that the special characters were shown as follows:</p> <pre><code>über =&gt; ³ber vergißt =&gt; vergi▀t wählen =&gt; wõhlen geförderter =&gt; gef÷rderter </code></pre> <p>The user guessed that it had something to do with the codepage that I'm on and encoding issues. Running DOS: chcp resulted in the output of 850.</p> <p>His attempt to solve the problem was the following:</p> <pre><code>require 'iconv' browser.text_field(:id =&gt; "text").value=( Iconv.iconv('CP850', 'ISO-8859-1', open('my-site.html') { |f| f.read }) ) </code></pre> <p>Unfortunately, this didn't solve the problem and the special characters are now shown for example as: \x81ber = über vergi\xE1t = vergißt and new lines are shown as \n</p> <p>I scraped the pages with the Mechanize, using the following code:</p> <pre><code>auszug=page.search ('/html/body/table/tr/td/table/tr[2]/td/table/tr/td[4]') outputFile&lt;&lt;auszug </code></pre> <p>I hope you can somehow help me, as I'm just a volunteer working here with a bit of programming experience. If I don't get this program running by next week (this encoding thing is the only thing that's really stopping me), then I'll have to manually transfer a hundred pages using copy+paste :/</p> <p>Thanks for taking the time and all the effort you're putting into this! :-)</p> <p>Sebastian</p>
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