From: m44rt3n@...
Date: 2006-11-16T05:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows command & unicod



On Nov 15, 5:48 pm, "Austin Ziegler" <halosta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/15/06, m44r...@yahoo.com <m44r...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I have a problem usingunicodecharacters in the windows command.
>
> > As a very simple example, when I type this:
>
> > H:\>ruby -e 'puts "rien � faire"'
>
> > I will get the following:
>
> > rien � faire
>
> > Does anyone know what causes this?
> > When I run my scripts from Scite, this problem doesn't come up.Please search the archives. There was a discussion about the
> limitations ofcmd.exeandUnicode. What you want generally can't be
> done from the command-line in Windows.
>
> -austin
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Thanks, this got me on my way.

It seems this works:

require 'iconv'
puts Iconv.new("ibm850","iso-8859-1").iconv("rien � faire")