From: Vimal Selvam Date: 2012-05-18T18:22:13+09:00 Subject: Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file Hi Sebastjan H, You can use Iconv standard library of Ruby (Method Name: conv) which help you to convert the unicode of the string or file. Please refer: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.2/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/Iconv.html#method-c-conv Regards, Vimal Raj -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.