From: "myvpsoft.com" Date: 2009-07-11T19:35:05+09:00 Subject: How to save a file in gb2312 encoding. I using Watir to show a webpage's text, but the out put is like irb>> \242\204\346\265\213\351\243\216\ I want output same as the character show in the webpage, how can i do. ( i searched before asking, and using iconv but no success, maybe I am in a incorrect way) require "watir" require 'iconv' url="http://www.163.com" ie = Watir::IE.new ie.goto url c=ie.table(:index,10).text => "\303\277\310\325\323\242\323\357\321\307\324\313\271\331\315\ 5\300\r\n\312\326\273\372\315\370\322\327\315\370\323\320\265\300 6\264\312\265\344" conv = Iconv.new("utf-8","gb2312") result = conv.iconv(c)