From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T12:26:39+09:00
Subject: Re: How does one transform UTF-8 encoded characters to ASCII


On May 24, 2006, at 11:13 PM, Wes Gamble wrote:

> 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?
>
Canonical depends on whether or not your using GNU libiconv [1] or  
the local implementation. If you used windows-1252 and it didn't  
throw an exception, you're probably ok.



> Also, what is a BOM?
>
Byte order marker. Usually used with UTF-16 its an initial sequence  
of bytes to let a program now if the file is big or little endian.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/