From: James Edward Gray II Date: 2009-11-19T08:49:15+09:00 Subject: Re: using FasterCSV to clean CSV file On Nov 18, 2009, at 4:18 PM, John Mcleod wrote: > Well, > As you suggested below, it was a problem with encoding. Glad to hear you figured it out. If you want to programmatically change the encoding, see Ruby's standard Iconv library: http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/encoding_conversion_with_iconv James Edward Gray II