From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-10-14T02:54:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Iconv and incompatible encodings

On Oct 13, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Davi Barbosa wrote:

> I have also a problem with iconv. I'm under linux (configured with  
> utf-8
> as usual) and under irb I get:
> irb(main):016:0> Iconv.conv("US-ASCII//TRANSLIT","UTF-8",'éèêë')
> => "eeee"
>
> But when I try the same in ruby or mod_ruby I get '????', for example:
> $ ruby -e "require 'iconv'; puts
> Iconv.conv('US-ASCII//TRANSLIT','UTF-8','éèêë')"
> ????
> I already checked with str.each_byte {|x| puts x} and the strings are
> exactly the same. Does anyone have any idea why I get two different
> answers from Iconv?
>
> My system:
> $ irb --version
> irb 0.9.5(05/04/13)
> $ ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]
>
> I have ENV['LANG']==en_US.UTF-8 in both cases.

Try adding the -KU switch to Ruby, to put it in UTF-8 mode.

James Edward Gray II