From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-09-05T05:12:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading files in UTF-8

tomsoft wrote:
>   Hello everybody,
> 
> 
>   I am deseperatly trying to read file encoded in UTF-8, to populate
> the Globalize database. But it seems that the UTF-8 encoding is not
> recognized, and read as an ASCII char. Is there any specific
> manipulation to do to achieve this?
>   Thanks in advance for any help....
require 'iconv' is your friend.

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/index.html

-- 
Alex