From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2003-09-24T05:38:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] specifying file encoding

On Tuesday 23 of September 2003 21:15, Yvon Thoraval wrote:
> How could we secify the encoding of I/O files ???

a string is considered by ruby as encoded as <insert your locale here>. If you 
want to treat strings from other encodings, you can convert encoding using 
"iconv" (bundled with ruby 1.8); in your case, you can use iconv to convert 
the string to your local encoding (iso-8859-1) and then capitalize will work 
fine.

emmanuel

PS: better support for this is planned for ruby 2.0
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