From: Eric-Roger Bruecklmeier <news01@...>
Date: 2003-11-21T19:02:15+09:00
Subject: Re: A question about Charsets

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT schrieb:

> 
>>in a new application i have to read dBase III Files which were generated 
>>in a DOS enviroment. How can i convert the Data into Windows codepages 
>>from ruby?
> 
> 
> Map each Byte to the corresponding one using a hash. You need the
> codepages.

That's the way i do it now, but it's slow :-(

> 
> For cp850 and cp866 you can use iconv, otherwise you can use recode.
> This can be done from Ruby but it requires the appropriate software
> being in place. Bad if you want software to be portable.

Exactly that's the problem, the software has to be portable :-(

Thanks anyhow!

C YA

Eric.