From: pkchau@... (Peter C)
Date: 2005-03-24T03:19:48+09:00
Subject: Strings compares in UTF-8 and ANSI

I'm grabbing strings from an IE browsers using WATIR. The text in IE
is encoded in UTF-8 and shows up correctly in a DOS prompt. I want to
do string compares between this UTF-8 string with a ANSI string from
my script. How can I convert the UTF-8 to an ANSI?