From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-08-15T13:51:31+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 question

Hi,

At Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:59:18 +0900,
Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> > If it is really in UTF-8,
> >
> >   input.gsub!(/\xc3\xb1/u, "n")
> >
> > or
> >
> >   input.gsub!(/�/, "n") # with -Ku option.
> >
> yeah, this works.  The problem is - I would prefer tr(), as I could then
> list other characters as well.  It's a bitch having to give a long list
> of gsub()'s.

You can use jcode.rb.

$ cat n.rb
input = "hispa�ola"
input.tr!("�", "n")
p input
$ iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 n.rb | ruby -Ku
"hispannola"
$ iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 n.rb | ruby -Ku -rjcode
"hispanola"

-- 
Nobu Nakada