how to do charset conversion in ruby?

[femtowin femtowin]

hello all,
say I've get a file encoding in GB2312,
how do I convert it to UTF-8?

 

[Katarina WONG]

hello all,
say I've get a file encoding in GB2312,
how do I convert it to UTF-8?

How about a good old RTFM ?

http://www.ruby-doc.org/ is your friend.

Check out this page for the iconv wrapper

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/classes/Iconv.html



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Katarina

 

[femtowin femtowin]

require 'iconv'
conv =3D Iconv.new("UTF16","ISO88591")
result =3D conv.iconv("hello")

but it reports: No such file to load -- iconv,
I'm under windows.
and the manual says Iconv is a wrapper class for the UNIX 95 iconv()
function family,so is that iconv must be used under UNIX/LINUX?
or should I install something?

 

[femtowin femtowin]

I've found out the problem,
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/iconv
says how to cope with it,

thanks,Katarina=20