From: Brian Candler <lists@...>
Date: 2012-09-20T17:03:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding question

Brian Candler wrote in post #1076773:
>> f = File.open('somefile.txt', 'r:iso-8859-1')
...
> *No* transcoding takes place in the above example, regardless of the
> where it runs; the data is read into the string as-is. However, every
> String which you read from the file using f.gets or f.getc is marked to
> say that it is encoded using UTF-8.

I meant to say ISO-8859-1 not UTF-8 there.

The point remains, the string remains the same sequence bytes of 
ISO-8859-1 encoded characters. If you want it transcoded to UTF-8, you 
have to ask for this by giving a second encoding.

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