Re: iconv [was: HTML Encoding]

[Romulo <romuloab@...>]

I believe the syntax for iconv is iconv( tocharset, fromcharset),
thus: iconv.new( 'utf-8', 'latin1' ) instead of iconv.new( 'latin1',
'utf-8' ).

Romulo

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Chris Datfung <chris.datfung@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl>
> wrote:
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org]
>> > On
>> > Behalf Of Chris Datfung
>> > Sent: maandag 14 oktober 2013 10:57
>> > To: Lua mailing list
>> > Subject: iconv [was: HTML Encoding]
>> >
>> > After a bit more re-engineering, I removed the need to html encode the
>> > data. My question is now as follows:
>> >
>> > I have a variable thats latin-1 encoded, e.g. montr\xe9al . I want to
>> > convert that to montréal. I think I can use iconv, but using the iconv
>> > documentation, I'm not getting the expected output.
>> >
>> > iconv = require("iconv")
>> > cd = iconv.new('latin1', 'utf8')
>> > city = "montr\xe9al"
>> > nstr, err = cd:iconv(city)
>> > print(nstr)
>> >
>> > returns: montrxe9al
>> > How can I convert montr\xe9al to montréal?
>> > Thanks,
>> > Chris
>>
>> I don't know iconv, but "\" is an escape character, try this;
>>
>> iconv = require("iconv")
>> cd = iconv.new('latin1', 'utf8')
>> city = "montr\\xe9al"   -- an alternative would be; city = [[montr\xe9al]]
>> nstr, err = cd:iconv(city)
>> print(nstr)
>>
>
> Thanks, still not working though:
>
> $ lua5.2
> Lua 5.2.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>
>> iconv = require("iconv")
>> cd = iconv.new('latin1', 'utf8')
>> city = "montr\xe9al"
>> nstr, err = cd:iconv(city)
>> print(nstr)
> montr
>
>> city = "montr\\xe9al"
>> nstr, err = cd:iconv(city)
>> print(nstr)
> montr\xe9al
>
>> city = [[montr\xe9al]]
>> nstr, err = cd:iconv(city)
>> print(nstr)
> montr\xe9al
>> city = "montr\233al"
>
>> nstr, err = cd:iconv(city)
>> print(nstr)
> montr
>> city = "montr\\233al"
>
>> nstr, err = cd:iconv(city)
>> print(nstr)
> montr\233al
>
> - Chris
>