From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-08-12T23:55:47+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 question

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:31:53PM +0900, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> I've finally switched to UTF-8.  It's awesome.  Now, if I can only find
> a utility that draws ANSI-art with UNICODE's line/block-drawing
> characters ;-).  (I guess it'd have to be UNICODE-art then ;-)  My
> problem, however, is: Ruby doesn't seem to support UTF-8, which is bad
> for me.  I need it to parse incoming UTF-8 strings to convert them to
> valid ISO9660 filenames.  Anyone have any suggestions as to how to solve
> this?  Are there any good libraries?

Try 'iconv', supplied with 1.8.0 or available from RAA as in the "shim"
module.

Note: this didn't build on my FreeBSD system, even though I have libiconv
and iconv.h:

$ less ext/iconv/mkmf.log
have_header: checking for iconv.h... --------------------
gcc -E -I/home/brian/rubykit18/work/ruby-1.8.0 -I/home/brian/rubykit18/work/ruby-1.8.0 -g -O2 -o conftest.i conftest.c
conftest.c:1: iconv.h: No such file or directory
checked program was:
/* begin */
#include <iconv.h>
/* end */

It guess it doesn't look in /usr/local/include unless told explicitly to do
so.

Regards,

Brian.