From: Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@...>
Date: 2010-02-20T04:52:57+09:00
Subject: Re: RTranslate Gem (Open-URI) and Encoding

>
> I'm using 1.8.7.  I don't think it's the terminal but I'm not entirely
> sure.  I'm outputting the translation to a text file, but technically
> I'm viewing it in a terminal app (Putty) so it may be screwing up there.
>
> Thanks.
> --

If you're using 1.8, you can transcode between ISO-8859 and UTF-8 with this:
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/index.html

-Jonathan Nielsen