From: Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T05:52:08+09:00
Subject: Re: How does one transform UTF-8 encoded characters to ASCII

Wes Gamble wrote:
> I'm a little embarrassed about asking this, but here goes...
> 
> I am using HTMLEntities.decode_entities on a string of HTML.
> 
> I don't understand how to make my text, which now contains UTF-8 
> characters, display correctly in say, Notepad.  All of the entities are 
> preceded by the character A-circumflex.  My guess is that Notepad 
> doesn't know how to handle UTF-8, for example.
> 
> Do I need to unpack the string with 'U' and then repack the result with 
> 'A'?
> 
> Thanks,
> Wes

OK I have found the iconv library, however, I am still having trouble.

What is the default text encoding for Ruby?  I assume it's gotten from 
the OS, right?  So if I'm on Windows XP in the US, it's probably 
ISO-8859-1?

Any help is appreciated.

Wes

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