std.net.curl get webpage asia font issue

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 07.06.2012 10:57, Sam Hu wrote:
> Greeting!
>
> The document on this website provide an example on how to get webpage
> information by std.net.curl.It is quite straightforward:
>
> [code]
> import std.net.curl, std.stdio;
>
> void main(){
>
> // Return a string containing the content specified by an URL
> string content = get("dlang.org");

It's simple this line you "convert" whatever site content was to 
unicode. Problem is that "convert" is either broken or it's simply a 
cast whereas it should re-encode source as unicode. So the way around is 
to get it to array of bytes and decode yourself.

>
> writefln("%s\n",content);
>
> readln;
> }
> [/code]
>
> When I change get("dlang.org") to get("yahoo.com"),everything goes
> fine;but when I change to get("yahoo.com.cn"),a runtime error said bad
> gbk encoding bla...
>
> So my very simple question is how to retrieve information from a webpage
> which could possibily contains asia font (like Chinese font)?
>
I think it's not "font" but encoding problem.

> Thanks for your help in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Sam


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Dmitry Olshansky