From: Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T12:13:56+09:00
Subject: Re: How does one transform UTF-8 encoded characters to ASCII

Logan Capaldo wrote:
> On May 24, 2006, at 9:36 PM, Sam Roberts wrote:
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> require 'iconv'
> from = 'UTF-8'
> to = 'CP1252'
> iconvertor = Iconv.new(from, to)
> s = "String in utf8"
> string_in_windows1252 = iconvertor.iconv(s)
> iconvertor.close

Is CP1252 the correct name of the character encoding?  I was using 
windows-1252?

Where is a list of the canonical names of character encodings?

Also, what is a BOM?

Thanks,
Wes

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