From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2008-08-19T12:59:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.* convert string to utf-8

On 18/08/2008, Pavel Drobushevich <p.drobushevich@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Axel,
>  Thank you at the your answer.
>  But maybe I didn't good explain my problem, I have some problem with
>  English.
>
>
>  > require 'iconv'
>  >
>  > s =IO.read('kknta10.txt')
>  >
>  > ic = Iconv.iconv('utf-8', 'cp1251',s)
>  > f=File.new("t.txt","w")
>  > f.puts ic
>  > f.close
>  >
>
>
> It's good idea, and I used it. But, I has many files with different
>  encoding: utf8, cp1251, ucs-2le, .... and I need convert all this files
>  to utf-8 by one code, I need to identify encoding of file in run time,
>  not to fix with const for every file, because files generate other
>  system.
>  Thanks
>

Have you tried enca?

http://dl.cihar.com/MIRROR/enca/

The functionality of this kind software is necessarily limited but if
you know you will only use documents in Russian it should give pretty
good results.

HTH

Michal