From: dave.burt@...
Date: 2005-08-12T09:56:11+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 encoding

>>> 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.

The One-Click Installer still doesn't include Iconv (the developers are
tracking it as an open issue).

The Rails wiki has some info on how to get it going:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/iconv
(See the Windows section.)
To summarize, the Ruby-mswin32 distribution at
http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/download/release.html
contains the required files.
You can also get the required iconv.dll from gettext on SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25167&package_id=51458

Cheers,
Dave