From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" Date: 2007-11-02T00:24:45+09:00 Subject: Re: The return of the son of Umlaute Take a look to http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ I found there everything that is necessary to do the job :-) C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\wolfgang>irb irb(main):001:0> require 'iconv' => true irb(main):002:0> Iconv.iconv('utf-8', 'CP850', "äöü") => ["\303\244\303\266\303\274"] irb(main):003:0> Iconv.iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'CP850', "äöü") => ["\344\366\374"] Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.