From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-12-20T08:43:09+09:00
Subject: Re: string to UTF

Hi,

At Sat, 20 Dec 2003 02:56:55 +0900,
Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Which isn't much of a test since the UTF-8 of "test" is just "test".
> This is a better demonstration:
>         
>         irb(main):004:0> convertor.iconv("�Hola!")
>         => "\302\241Hola!"
> 
> The two-byte sequence "\302\241" - that is, a byte whose value is
> octal 302 = decimal 194 = hexadecimal C2 followed by a byte whose value is
> octal 241 = decimal 161 = hexadecimal A1, is, in fact, the UTF-8 encoding
> of the character U+00A1 INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK.  

Only for ISO-8859-1, iconv is not needed.

  $ ruby -e 'p "\xa1Hola!".unpack("C*").pack("U*")'
  "\302\241Hola!"

-- 
Nobu Nakada