From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-07-21T20:37:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Re-post: Parsing Japanese Language and Some Ruby Trivia

On Jul 18, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Brylie Oxley wrote:

> Also, I don't think that the encoding is Unicode. I have opened the
> document in OO.o and JEdit using the Shift-JIS (as well as 'Apple
> Macintosh' and 'Windows-932') encoding(s) and the characters seem to
> render correctly. I am unsure how to convert this text to Unicode for
> proper analysis in Ruby.

Perhaps this would help:

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

James Edward Gray II