From: Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Date: 2004-04-12T19:39:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with special characters like üöä (german: umlaut)

ts wrote:
>>>>>> "D" == Dirk Einecke <dirk.einecke@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>D> The file was created with this code:
> 
>  Well, if you are sure that it's encoded in UTF8
> 
>D> def writeMyFile(path,content)
>D>    file = File.open(path, File::WRONLY|File::TRUNC|File::CREAT)
>D>      content = CGI::unescapeHTML(content)
> 
>         content = content.unpack("U*").pack("c*") 

Or better: use iconv.