From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2003-12-22T22:21:08+09:00
Subject: Re: string to UTF

Piergiuliano Bossi wrote:

>> Is iconv available on Windows 1.8.0 PragProg distribution?
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> [...]
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>> yes, i reported this recently. it's a pretty bad problem for me :O/
>> i hope somebody smarter than me will fix it...
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> You are right, I'm sorry, I should have checked first.
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> Not a big issue for me, anyway, I'm just curious to understand how it 
> can work on Windows.
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> Cheers, Giuliano
>
I would like to point out that a port of this feature to windows is 
possible, there is a native windows iconv port:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm

unfortunately I think right now ruby does not support iconv at all on win32.

emmanuel