From: Matthew Huggett <mhuggett@...>
Date: 2005-04-05T18:45:17+09:00
Subject: Re: How to handle Iconv errors (newbie question)

From: Paul Battley <pbattley@gmail.com>
>
>> It's not crucial for my script to print every string in the array, so
>> I'd like to just ignore any that Iconv can't handle.  How can I handle
>> the Iconv error so that the processing of the array can continue?
>
>Pehaps the best solution is just to tell iconv to skip over illegal
>sequences in the source string.  To do this, append "//IGNORE" to the
>+to+ string.
>
>E.g. 
>
>ill = "foo\776\776bar" # Illegal utf-8 string
>Iconv.iconv('ISO-8859-15', 'UTF-8', ill) # Raises Iconv::IllegalSequence
>Iconv.iconv('ISO-8859-15//IGNORE', 'UTF-8', ill) # => "foobar"

That did it.  Thanks a lot!

Matt