From: david wright <david_v_wright@...>
Date: 2008-08-31T16:25:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Wanted: Script to convert to/from UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32

you could just convert everything to it's html entity form

http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/
gem install -r htmlentities

+David

--- On Sat, 8/30/08, Siegfried Heintze <siegfried@heintze.com> wrote:

> From: Siegfried Heintze <siegfried@heintze.com>
> Subject: Wanted: Script to convert to/from UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 9:00 PM
> Does someone have a little ruby script that will read a file
> in
> UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32 (my choice) and search for all the
> characters between
> 0x7f-0xffffff and convert them to an ASCII digit string
> that begins with
> "&#" and ends with ";" and output
> the whole thing? If not, could someone
> tell me how to write one?
> 
> How about a script to do the inverse?
> 
> Thanks!
> siegfried