[TxMt] Re: trouble with e_url in escape.rb (TextMate 2, Mavericks, Ruby 2.x)

[Matt Neuburg]

On Jan 9, 2014, at 10:35 PM, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> wrote:

> On 10 Jan 2014, at 9:21, Matt Neuburg wrote:
> 
>> […] The problem is that the "n" modifier on the match requires that this string (str) be ASCII-8BIT encoding. But on the Mac a file system path is UTF-8. Thus it is possible that this method will be sent a UTF-8 string and will choke on it.
> 
> The reason we coerce the 8-bit ASCII encoding onto the source string is to look at the “raw” bytes.
> 
> That way, your file name should be encoded as “h%C3%B6wdy.txt”.
> 
>> I suggest that this utility may need to be revised for use with Mavericks and Ruby 2.x.
> 
> If anyone know of a way to achieve the same with ruby 2 (that is backwards compatible) I’ll gladly update the code.

It doesn't need to be backwards compatible, since your code can always check the Ruby version... :)

On my machine, simply calling URI.escape() does the job correctly. So you could either do what URI.escape() does - Ruby is open source, so it easy to see how it works, by calling each_byte or unpack("C*") and cycling through the "characters" - or you could just call URI.escape() directly.

m.

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