From: Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T15:04:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How does one transform UTF-8 encoded characters to ASCII

Wes Gamble wrote:
> If I do an Iconv from windows-1252 to UTF-8 and
> then I operate on my UTF-8 string to do something to it and
> then I do an Iconv back to windows-1252 before I write to a file,
> 
> THEN
> 
> I should not have any need to place a BOM into the string correct?
> 
> The BOM is only to help applications understand that the encoding of the 
> text is UTF-8, correct?
> 
> Wes

One last thing - I believe that one of my issues is that when I attempt 
to convert BACK to 1252/ISO-8859 or whatever, that some of my UTF-8 
chars will not convert because they don't exist in the target character 
encodings.  If that's true, then I could write the UTF-8 encoded data 
into a file provided that I preceded it with the BOM.

Does that sound right?

Man, when I got up this morning I didn't know I'd be learning how to 
convert character encodings in Ruby.  Oh joy!!!!

Wes

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