Newbie question: Working with iso-8859-1 files in Ruby

[Peter Krantz]

Hi!

I am trying to load and parse text files with various encodings. Some
are iso-8859-1, some are pure ASCII and others utf-8. None of them
contain characters not available in iso-8859-1. What is a good
strategy to use when working with the standard string methods in Ruby

s =3D "hell=F6"
s.upcase =3D=3D "HELL=D6"

=3D> false

Kind regards,

Peter