From: Henrik Nyh <henrik@...>
Date: 2008-11-09T19:09:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Transliteration problems

See if http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse_thread/thread/96c75d3587012556
helps.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:10:12 +0100, Axel Etzold <AEtzold@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> p Iconv.iconv("ascii//translit","iso-8859-1",s)[0]   => "caff?"
>
> It seems as if either your system is broken or the file is not in ISO 8859-1
> because that conversion *should* work and it does so on my Fedora 9:
>
> Linux pen2.homeunix.net 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 17 14:20:33
> EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> $ iconv --version|head -1
> iconv (GNU libc) 2.8
>
> Are you sure that you do not get "caffA?" in place of "caff?"? That would
> suggest that the file is encoded using utf8, not an encoding of the ISO 8859
> familiy.
>
> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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