From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-07-07T23:42:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 - character encoding

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Thomas Thomassen<thomas@thomthom.net> wrote:
> Gregory Brown wrote:
>> http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/character_encodings
>
> I have seen that series. I still can't work out how Ruby determines what
> UTF-8 character to map to the 128-255 spaces.

I  missed why you wouldn't just set $KCODE="U" and stick w. UTF-8?

Anyway, I *think* chars.pack("C*") is going to give you ISO-8859-1 but
someone else will need to verify for you.

-greg