From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-06-10T07:34:04+09:00
Subject: Re: A question about Iconv arguments

Axel Etzold wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I need to convert some accented text, and I would like to know
> what arguments I have to give Iconv to produce the desired output.
> E.g., in Italian, the word for Friday is "venerdi", where the
> "i" carries a dash (small i with grave accent).
> If you type this into Wikipedia search in Italian
> (which I believed to be in utf-8 encoding),
> it will load:
> 
> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venerd%c3%ac ,
> 
> yet this syntax:
> 
> converted_doc = Iconv.new(output_encoding, input_encoding).iconv(doc)
> 
> gives me "venerd\303\254" when I convert from latin1 encoding.
That looks right to me - if I write that into a UTF-8 HTML document, it 
displays correctly.  What are you expecting?

-- 
Alex