Conversion between utf-8 and iso8859-1?

[Hadmut Danisch]

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?

regards
Hadmut

 

[MikkelFJ]

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?

I'm not aware of any but that isn't to say there isn't one
I assume you have checked out "iconv" which I have no experience with.

There is a good code page tutorial here - follow a few links if you need.

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html

The utf-8 format is easily decomposed into UCS2, and from there it is fairly
easy to go to 8859-1 because it is only 256 characters and most of them are
in the lower 8 bytes of UCS2.
You should btw. also consider 8859-9 (I think it is) it's basically 8859-1
with the euro sign.

Mikkel

 

[Aredridel]

I need to convert between different character sets,

I'm not aware of any but that isn't to say there isn't one
I assume you have checked out "iconv" which I have no experience with.

iconv sounds like the tool to me.

You should btw. also consider 8859-9 (I think it is) it's basically 8859-1
with the euro sign.

ISO-8859-15, which has updated french and German characters, and the
Euro. -9 is non-roman.

Ari

 

[Carlos]

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