# Converting ö to o, ü to u, encoding

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/converting-a-to-o-a-to-u-encoding/138463>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 23, 2008, 9:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/converting-a-to-o-a-to-u-encoding/138463 "2008-05-23T09:46:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![shevken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@shevken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shevken)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 9:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/converting-a-to-o-a-to-u-encoding/138463/1 "2008-05-23T09:46:32Z")

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Hi guys,

Does any1 have a ruby snippet to do the conversion? Probably using the  
iconv lib?

Best Wishes.

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**Author:** ![shevken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@shevken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shevken)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 10:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/converting-a-to-o-a-to-u-encoding/138463/2 "2008-05-23T10:00:48Z")

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Kenny Lee wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> Does any1 have a ruby snippet to do the conversion? Probably using the  
> iconv lib?
> 
> Best Wishes.

Sorry,

Should have googled it. [http://tinyurl.com/22c6t](http://tinyurl.com/22c6t)

w = Iconv.conv(‘ascii//translit’, ‘utf-8’, ‘kierkegÃ¥rd’)  
w = w.delete(“"”)