From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T11:44:28+09:00
Subject: Re: How does one transform UTF-8 encoded characters to ASCII


On May 24, 2006, at 9:36 PM, Sam Roberts wrote:

> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:27:46AM +0900, Wes Gamble wrote:
>> Paul Battley wrote:
>>> Windows Notepad does handle UTF-8, but requires the presence of a  
>>> BOM
>>> (the three bytes "\xef\xbb\xbf") at the start of the file to read it
>>> properly. Other, more competent applications may allow you to select
>>> the appropriate encoding, or may even automatically detect it.
>> I don't really care about Notepad.
>>
>> I can't get VIM to show this text correctly.
>
> vim handles utf-8 (if your terminal does!), but also wants a BOM.
>
> You might be able to tell it that its utf-8 even without the BOM.
>
>> I want to be able to convert (what I believe to be) UTF-8 into
>> Windows-1252 succesfully.
>
> Doesn't iconv take two args, the input and output character sets?
>
> Sam
>
>

require 'iconv'
from = 'UTF-8'
to = 'CP1252'
iconvertor = Iconv.new(from, to)
s = "String in utf8"
string_in_windows1252 = iconvertor.iconv(s)
iconvertor.close