From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-10-04T12:21:49+09:00
Subject: iconv aliases? (Re: Iconv.iconv and Windows XP)

Tim wrote:
> I'll change "UNICODE" to "UTF-8" and see where that gets me ... if it 
> works I'll contact the original author with a patch that also will include 
> some small fixes I've added along the way.

An interesting thing I didn't put down in response to your original post is 
that in past experience with command-line iconv, it dealt with aliases. 
"Latin-1" is one I'm certain existed, and I believe "Unicode" was mapped to 
"UTF-16" or something. I'm not sure where those aliases are, and why this 
iconv/Ruby setup doesn't have them.

Cheers,
Dave