From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2004-02-16T22:27:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Conversion between utf-8 and iso8859-1?

> Hi,
> 
> I need to convert between different character sets,
> but didn't find any library to do so except for 
> ruby-gnome's glib.convert
> 
> Is there any character conversion library which 
> doesn't come with a complete graphical library?

Between these two encodings, you can use, without any external library:

utf8string.unpack("U*").pack("c*")   # => latin1 string

latin1string.unpack("C*").pack("U*") # => utf8 string