From: Lugovoi Nikolai Date: 2006-01-31T21:22:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Premature end of regular expression with non-ascii chara 2006/1/31, Nick Snels : > Indeed, it isn't in UTF-8. It's in ISO-8859-1 (Latin1). The problem here > is that I would like to work in UTF-8, but I have to read in files. And > these files are often (almost always) in ISO-8859-1. And I haven't found > a way of converting these strings to Unicode in Ruby. � and � etc. form > part of ISO-8859-1. > use Iconv library