From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2011-01-07T09:21:37+09:00
Subject: Re: From UTF-8 to windows-1252

Hi,

In message "Re: From UTF-8 to windows-1252"
    on Fri, 7 Jan 2011 03:53:26 +0900, "Y. NOBUOKA" <nobuoka@r-definition.com> writes:

|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" )

For the record, you don't have to use force_encoding:

  mydata.encode("windows-1252", "UTF-8")

							matz.