From: Francesco Malvezzi <francesco.malvezzi@...>
Date: 2009-07-15T19:01:57+09:00
Subject: iconv emacs trouble

I'm finding a weird problem with iconv. I would like to convert from
UTF-8 West European strings (like 'pan carr�') to the ASCII//TRANSLIT ->
'pan carre'

my system is: Linux bacedifo 2.6.18-6-xen-686 #1 SMP Fri Dec 12 20:13:49
UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
with
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]

my script is:
"
require 'iconv'
$KCODE = 'UTF-8'
require 'jcode'

resume = 'r�sum�'
puts resume.inspect

puts "Internal iconv: #{Iconv.conv("ASCII//TRANSLIT", "UTF8", resume)}"
puts "System iconv: #{%x{echo "#{resume}" | iconv -f utf-8 -t
ascii//translit}.strip}"
"

Output is:
francesco@bacedifo:~/tmp$ ruby ruby-talk.rb
"r�sum�"
Internal iconv: r?sum? # wrong: should be: resume
System iconv: resume # correct

Some more weirdness: with irb it just works:
francesco@bacedifo:~/tmp$ irb -r iconv
irb(main):001:0> resume = 'r�sum�'
=> "r\303\251sum\303\251"
irb(main):002:0>  Iconv.conv("ASCII//TRANSLIT", "UTF8", resume)
=> "resume"

With jruby fails in a different way:
francesco@bacedifo:~/tmp$ jruby ruby-talk.rb
"r�sum�"
Internal iconv: r�sum� # wrong
System iconv: rA(C)sumA(C) # wrong

Is it a emacs issue? Maybe, but vim does the same. It's more likely I'm
doing something wrong. Can you help me?

Thank you!

Francesco