cmess - Assist with handling messed up encodings

VERSION

This documentation refers to cmess version 0.2.1

DESCRIPTION

CMess bundles several tools under its hood that aim at dealing with various problems occurring in the context of character sets and encodings. Currently, there are:

guess_encoding

Simple helper to identify the encoding of a given string. Includes the ability to automatically detect the encoding of an input.

cinderella

When characters are “double encoded”, you can’t easily convert them back – this is where cinderella comes in, sorting the good ones into the pot and the (potentially) bad ones into the crop…

bconv

Convert between bibliographic (and other) encodings.

decode_entities

Decode HTML entities in a string.

TODO: well, more of the description… ;-)

Documentation

<prometheus.rubyforge.org/cmess>

Source code (old)

<prometheus.rubyforge.org/svn/scratch/cmess>

Source code

<github.com/blackwinter/cmess>

Rubyforge project

<rubyforge.org/projects/prometheus>

AUTHORS

CREDITS

  • John Vorhauer <[email protected]> for the idea and original implementation of the automatic encoding guesser (see CMess::GuessEncoding::Automatic).

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007-2009 University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50932 Cologne, Germany

cmess is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

cmess is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with cmess. If not, see <www.gnu.org/licenses/>.