From: Wes Gamble Date: 2006-05-25T12:18:14+09:00 Subject: Re: How does one transform UTF-8 encoded characters to ASCII I would also like to know which encoding is in effect before I start doing all of this converting. If I look at the $KCode variable to try and figure that out and the value is "NONE", what does that mean? Can I assume I am using "ASCII" or "US-ASCII"? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.