From: Wesley J Landaker <wjl@...>
Date: 2003-11-15T00:31:10+09:00
Subject: Re: utf8 -> latin2

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On Friday 14 November 2003 7:46 am, Bedo Sandor wrote:
>   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?

I think the iconv module handles this nicely:

require 'iconv'
Iconv.conv("utf-8","latin2","this is a test")

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