From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-09-25T20:37:54+09:00
Subject: Re: repost: system encoding?

Hi,

At Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:41:57 +0900,
Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
>     I'm reading data from different encodings (web pages), i first 
> thought about converting all to unicode, but it's not handy right now in 
> ruby. Then i thought i might as well convert it all to my local encoding 
> for easy processing in ruby (uppercase, regexps etc) [1]. it's easy to 
> hardcode my local encoding in the app, but i'd like to make it generic, 
> to work at my work (windows, cp1250) and at home (linux, iso8859-2).
>     Hence the question: how can i get a string of my local encoding, on 
> linux or windows? or how do i tell iconv "convert to my local encoding"?

On many unixes, environment variables LC_CTYPE or LANG would be
used for that purpose.  Current linux's iconv accepts both of
iso8859-2 and cp1250, and I expect libiconv for win32 does too.

-- 
Nobu Nakada