From: Hans de Graaff <redmine@...>
Date: 2009-05-28T18:58:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23584] [Bug #1528] setlocale is not initialized causing problems when using iconv

Bug #1528: setlocale is not initialized causing problems when using iconv
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1528

Author: Hans de Graaff
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
ruby -v: 1.8.6, 1.8.7

Current versions of ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 have problems when using Iconv. The problem and a patch to solve the issue are described in this thread, originally on ruby-talk.

http://www.nabble.com/Iconv-and-incompatible-encodings-td5060857.html

Without this patch I get (with ruby 1.8.7_p72):

ruby -e "require 'iconv'; puts Iconv.iconv('ASCII//TRANSLIT', 'UTF-8', '����x')"
??x

With this patch I get:

ruby -e "require 'iconv'; puts Iconv.iconv('ASCII//TRANSLIT', 'UTF-8', '����x')"
eox


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