From: "Y. NOBUOKA" <nobuoka@...>
Date: 2011-01-07T12:42:34+09:00
Subject: Re: From UTF-8 to windows-1252

Hi, matz

> |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")

I missed the +src_encoding+ arg and  the +option+ arg.
Now I see a String#encode method is a very useful.
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M001113

thanks!

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nobuoka