From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@...>
Date: 2004-05-04T09:08:11+09:00
Subject: Re: how can I add the iconv extension to Ruby?

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> After downloading and compiling the GNU libiconv stuff (which resulted
in=20
> giving me the relevant iconv.dll), retrieving a version of iconv.so
from the=20
> Ruby 1.8.1-20040402-mswin32.tar.gz file, and plonking those files in
the=20
> correct sub-directories of the directory where I installed Ruby 1.8.1
in the=20
> first place, everything works as it should.  Thank you very much for
your=20
> advice.
>=20
> I had just started using Yoshida Masato's Uconv routines (which worked

> perfectly well, thank you as well Yoshida Masato), but I prefer to use

> software that has been declared as 'standard' by the Ruby community,
and am=20
> glad I can do so from now on.

Glad I could help.
Take a look also in the RAA for iconv/io. It contains a couple of
utilities to use IO objects that'll automatically convert. Attached are
a couple of useful extensions to it.

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