From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-08-19T06:46:43+09:00
Subject: Re: `cmd` and UTF-8

> Yes, I mean the return value.
> 
> I can't use Iconv because the script should work with any locale.

Until Ruby gets some non-basic Unicode support, I -think- you're stuck 
to iconv-ing. I don't think that even $KCODE='u' will detect user input 
locale and convert automatically, but only changes the behaviour of 
string manipulation code. I could be completely wrong though.

You should be able to detect the current locale using the standard 
library, I haven't really done this though. Welcome to the world of text 
encoding, may whoever invented codepages burn in hell forever for that.

David Vallner