From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2006-07-10T22:29:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Iconv and incompatible encodings

Paul Battley wrote:
> Yes, there is. Add //IGNORE to the destination encoding to ignore
> unavailable characters, or //TRANSLIT to transliterate them into
> combinations of ASCII characters (e.g. `e for 竪).
> 
> E.g.:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env rubby
> $KCODE = 'u'
> require 'iconv'
> 
> s = 'caff竪'
> 
> ic_ignore = Iconv.new('US-ASCII//IGNORE', 'UTF-8')
> puts ic_ignore.iconv(s) # => caff
> 
> ic_translit = Iconv.new('US-ASCII//TRANSLIT', 'UTF-8')
> puts ic_translit.iconv(s) # => caff`e
> 
> //TRANSLIT will raise an exception on characters it can't
> transliterate, however; this can be solved by using
> '//IGNORE//TRANSLIT' together (in that order).


Can anyone else get this to work? Instead of "caff`e" I just get "caff?"

Daniel