From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" Date: 2004-05-03T08:29:14+09:00 Subject: Re: how can I add the iconv extension to Ruby? > IIUC, the .so files are just the connection ruby needs to the actual > iconv.dll - you still need that. > You should download and compile iconv and readline from GNU.org. ps. If you're on windows, try downloading binaries and plonking them in the ruby/bin dir.