From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-09-30T22:58:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Reliable character encodings conversion

On Sep 30, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Hubert Łępicki wrote:

> 2008/9/30 James Gray <james@grayproductions.net>:
>> On Sep 30, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Hubert Łępicki wrote:
>>
>>> I am using Iconv library wrapper to convert texts to UTF8, but it's
>>> throwing "Iconv::IllegalSequence" exception.
>>
>> You can add a //TRANSLIT to the end of the "to" encoding to have  
>> Iconv
>> attempt to convert characters to reasonable equivalents in that  
>> encoding.
>> This is usually more helpful when your input is all one encoding  
>> and just
>> has some characters that won't translate well (like a UTF-8 …  
>> going to
>> ISO-8859-1).
>>
>> Your case of mixed encodings is probably best handled with //IGNORE  
>> instead,
>> which asks Iconv to skip over any characters that cannot be  
>> converted.  You
>> will loose some data with this, but it will convert what it can.
>>
>> You can also use //TRANSLIT//IGNORE to convert what can be  
>> converted and
>> skip the rest.
>>
>
> Thanks, //IGNORE//TRANSLIT seems to help a bit - but it's not perfect.

You listed those backwards.  Is that really what you tried?  Does  
reversing them make any difference?

James Edward Gray II