From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T06:06:10+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 encoding

balony@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Im working with xmprpc/client and the server Im working against
> requires utf8 for my strings.
>
> I found this article with google:
> http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/futurismUnicodeInRuby.html
>
> Is this for real? Is there no workaround for me to get my data to the
> server with uft8 encoding?

You can use iconv or you can run an external pipe through GNU recode.

utf8_string = Iconv.new('iso-8859-1', 'utf-8').iconv(iso_8859_string)