From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-03-07T09:10:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Pure ruby iconv?

Daniel Berger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It looks like Rails 2.x requires the iconv library. Unfortunately,
> libiconv requires mingw or cygwin to build properly. Since I have
> neither, I'm in a bit of a bind.
> 
> I thought there was a pure Ruby library (or three) out there that
> could do what iconv does, but I've never done the research.
> 
> Specifically, it looks like ActiveSupport requires it:
> 
> activesupport-2.2.2\lib\active_support\inflector.rb
> 
> # Replaces accented characters with their ascii equivalents.
> def transliterate(string)
>    Iconv.iconv('ascii//ignore//translit', 'utf-8', string).to_s
> end
> 
> Any suggestions? Or do I need to put a bounty out there for a pure
> ruby iconv now?

You could download mingw :)
http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/tree/master

Good luck!
-=r
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