From: Bedo Sandor <bsanyi@...>
Date: 2003-11-14T23:46:07+09:00
Subject: utf8 -> latin2



  Hi,

How can I convert utf-8 encoded strings to latin-2?
I have tried it using libuconv with little success:

require 'uconv'

class String
        def un_utf8
                Uconv.u8tou16(self).gsub(/\000/, '')
        end

        def to_utf8
                tmp = ""
                self.each_byte { |b|
                        tmp += b.chr + "\000"
                }
                Uconv.u16tou8(tmp)
        end
end

This program is ugly, and does not exactly what I want.
u8tou16 generates a string with 16 bit long characters,
for example "test".un_utf8 == "t\000e\000s\000t\000".
gsub clears the unnecessery "\000" characters from
the string.  But there are characters in Hungarian,
that has non-zero second byte in the output of the
u8tou16, so they fail to convert.  Anyway this is an
ugly hack.

How is it done nicely?

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bSanyI