From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-12-07T18:20:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20403] Re: Iconv.charset_map()

Hi,

At Sun, 7 Dec 2008 13:32:04 +0900,
James Gray wrote in [ruby-core:20402]:
> What is Iconv.charset_map() suppose to do?

See ext/iconv/charset_alias.rb.  It's suppose to provide
standard charset names.

> It doesn't seem to do much for me:
> 
>      $ ruby -r iconv -ve 'p Iconv.charset_map'
>      ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i686-darwin9.4.0]
>      {}

That iconv has all names already.

> I was looking for a way to list the available encodings through the  
> Ruby extension.  Is that possible?

`iconv -l' would show them if the optionn is available.
Also Iconv.list exists in 1.9, and might work.

-- 
Nobu Nakada