See if adding Encoding information to BaseHandler helps us with UTF.

[Issue #158] There is a general problem with non ASCII encodings in
awestruct when running under Ruby 1.9. Mayhap by declaring the default
encoding to be UTF-8 we can be a little more better.

lib/awestruct/handlers/base_handler.rb

@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 require 'shellwords'
 require 'open3'
 
+if RUBY_VERSION.start_with? "1.9"
+  Encoding.default_external = "UTF-8"
+else
+  puts RUBY_VERSION
+end
+
 module Awestruct
   module Handlers
     class BaseHandler

spec/erb_handler_spec.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-
+# -*- coding: ASCII-8BIT -*-
+require 'awestruct/page'
 require 'awestruct/handlers/file_handler'
 require 'awestruct/handlers/erb_handler'
 
@@ -7,11 +8,14 @@
 describe Awestruct::Handlers::ErbHandler do
 
   before :all do
-    @site = OpenCascade.new :encoding=>false, :dir=>Pathname.new( File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/test-data/handlers' )
+    @site = OpenCascade.new( :encoding=>false, 
+                            :crunchy => "bacon",  
+                            :config => { :dir => 'foo' },
+                            :dir=>Pathname.new( File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/test-data/handlers' ) )
   end
 
   def handler_file(path)
-    "#{@site.dir}/#{path}"
+    Pathname.new( File.dirname( __FILE__ ) + "/test-data/handlers/#{path}" )
   end
 
   def create_context
@@ -35,4 +39,17 @@ def create_context
     rendered.should =~ %r(<h2>The fruit of the day is: apples</h2>) 
   end
 
+  it "should interpolate variables" do
+    page = Awestruct::Page.new( @site, Awestruct::Handlers::ErbHandler::CHAIN.create( @site, handler_file("erb-page.html.erb") ) )
+    page.prepare!
+    page.content.should =~ %r(<h3>bacon</h3>)
+  end
+
+  it "should handle UTF character encodings" do
+    page = Awestruct::Page.new( @site, Awestruct::Handlers::ErbHandler::CHAIN.create( @site, handler_file("erb-utf-page.html.erb") ) )
+    page.prepare!
+    page.content.should == "# coding: UTF-8\nBesøg fra Danmark\n"
+    page.content
+  end
+
 end

spec/test-data/handlers/erb-page.html.erb

@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 <h1>This is an ERB page</h1>
 <h2>The fruit of the day is: <%= "apples" %></h2>
+<h3><%=site.crunchy%></h3>
+
+<p>Besøg fra Danmark</p>

spec/test-data/handlers/erb-utf-page.html.erb

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# coding: UTF-8
+Besøg fra Danmark