From: Sajal Kayan <sajal@...>
Date: 2008-08-04T18:56:03+09:00
Subject: Re: handling special characters

Heesob Park wrote:

> The ' character (0x92) is not in tis-620 but in windows-874 character 
> set.
> 
> Refer to
> http://www.langbox.com/codeset/tis620.html
> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/874.mspx
> 
> Try
> body =   Iconv.iconv("utf-8", "windows-874", body).join
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Park Heesob


Awesome works like a charm now. Thanks for the prompt response.

Seems like the source site was putting in the wrong html headers.

You saved me from going bald :D
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