From: Mister Yu <eryan.yu@...>
Date: 2007-09-29T22:55:03+09:00
Subject: Iconv hangs while converting chinese UTF-8 to ascii, please help.

hello all, i am a rails developer. i ran into this problem when i m
using permalink_fu to generating permalink field.

it runs perfectly when the field is purely english characters, but
when it tries to convert a field with chinese characters, it hangs.

i trace it down until i got to the line with Iconv in the console,
everytime i execute the following, it hangs:


Code :

    Iconv.iconv('ascii//ignore//translit','utf-8','some chinese
characters here 你好嘛' )

does anyone else run into this problem?thank you

if it helps to list what machine i m on:

Windows XP
ruby 1.8.6
AMD64 3000+