From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2002-08-01T18:02:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby now? In message "Re: Unicode in Ruby now?" on 02/08/01, Curt Sampson writes: |Me? Not so much, actually. I need to be able to read in ISO-8859-1, |ISO-2022-JP, EUC-JP, Shift_JIS and UTF-8, convert them to a common |internal format so I don't have to worry about where the data I am |manipulating came from, and do the various conversions again for output. Reasonable. How do you want to specify the reading/writing charset? matz.