From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2003-12-22T21:40:59+09:00
Subject: Re: string to UTF

Piergiuliano Bossi wrote:

> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
>> Use the iconv library, which comes with Ruby 1.8.  
>
>
> Is iconv available on Windows 1.8.0 PragProg distribution?
>
>     C:\TEMP\x>ruby -v
>     ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-mswin32]
>
>> You have to know
>> what encoding you're starting with - ISO-8859-1 (a.k.a Latin-1) or
>> whatever your local character set is.  Note the order of arguments
>> in Iconv.open: the target character set comes first, then the source
>> character set.
>>
>>     irb(main):001:0> require 'iconv'
>>     => true
>
>
> Not for me:
>
>     irb(main):001:0> require 'iconv'
>     LoadError: No such file to load -- iconv
>             from (irb):1:in `require'
>             from (irb):1
>     irb(main):002:0> VERSION
>     => "1.8.0"
>
> Trying your code in a file named 'tryconv.rb':
>
>     require 'iconv'
>     convertor = Iconv.open("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1")
>     strUTF = convertor.iconv("test")
>
> I get:
>
>     C:\TEMP\x>ruby tryconv.rb
>     ./iconv.rb:2: uninitialized constant Iconv (NameError)
>             from tryconv.rb:1:in `require'
>             from tryconv.rb:1

yes, i reported this recently. it's a pretty bad problem for me :O/
i hope somebody smarter than me will fix it...

emmanuel