From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-11-16T14:08:02+09:00
Subject: Re: having problem in printing out correct character

On Nov 15, 2008, at 6:33 PM, The Higgs bozo wrote:

>> I copy some texts from a pdf file and save them in a text file. I
>> extract some info from the text file, write them to a yaml file.  
>> Then I
>> use a script to print out the yaml file. It works OK most of the  
>> time.
>> But I am a bit annoyed that sometimes it can mess up with some words,
>> such as "passé".
>> How am I going to fix it?
>
> I have no idea, and I've never dealt with these issues.  So I asked
> Google,
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&q=ruby+convert+unicode+ascii
>
> The first hit answers your question.

You may also wish to browse the series of blog posts I have been  
writing on character encodings:

http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/understanding_m17n

James Edward Gray II