From: "Noé Alejandro Castro Sánchez" <casanejo@...>
Date: 2011-01-07T03:39:44+09:00
Subject: From UTF-8 to windows-1252

Hello.

I have some data in a file with windows-1252 charset ("special"
characters, for example accented words). I use the method encode to post
them in a SQLite3 DB:

   mydata.encode("utf-8")

Using SQLiteSpy I can see the data with the right characters.

But when I get the data from the DB with my program I want to process
them in Windows-1252 again. So, if I use encode with windows-1252 I get
an error

   mydata.encode("windows-1252")

   compare_synonyms.rb:21:in `encode': "\xC3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8
in conversion from ASCII-8BIT to Windows-1252
(Encoding::UndefinedConversionError) from compare_synonyms.rb:21:in
`block (2 levels) in identify_synonyms'

   Now, if I use codepoints the data are not displayed with the the
right characters:

   mydata.codepoints.to_a.pack("C*")
   >> acompañar

What happen? What can I do?

Thanks in advanced.

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