From: "Noé alejandro Castro sánchez" <casanejo@...>
Date: 2011-01-07T04:14:21+09:00
Subject: Re: From UTF-8 to windows-1252

> Although an encoding of the data from the DB is UTF-8, ruby doesn't
> know the encoding, so you must do tell ruby the encoding before
> encoding to Windows-1252.
>
>   # tell ruby the encoding
>   mydata.force_encoding( "UTF-8" )
>   # encode to windows-1252
>   mydata.encode( "windows-1252" )
>
> Regards,

Hey, thanks a lot!! Now I can see the right characters =D

Regards.

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