From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-09-05T10:25:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading files in UTF-8

Hi,

At Wed, 5 Sep 2007 04:55:04 +0900,
tomsoft wrote in [ruby-talk:267587]:
>   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?

UTF-8 is ASCII compatible, so if your data don't contain any
multi-byte sequences, they should seem like as ASCII data.

-- 
Nobu Nakada