From: Jeff Mital <jmital@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T09:16:10+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 encoding

* balony@gmail.com <balony@gmail.com>:
> 
> Dave Burt skrev:
>> balony@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
>> > 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)
> 
> I'm running on a windows system, that could be a problem?  Also
> i'm getting "test.rb:4: uninitialized constant Iconv (NameError)"
> when testing.

You'll need to put the line:

require 'iconv'

at the top of your program to use the Iconv.* functions. I don't
have access to a Windows box, but if it's part of Ruby's standard
library, I'd assume it's available on Windows.

    - jeff -

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