# In search of an encoding guess module

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-search-of-an-encoding-guess-module/87233>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 26, 2006, 10:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-search-of-an-encoding-guess-module/87233 "2006-03-26T10:24:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 10:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-search-of-an-encoding-guess-module/87233/1 "2006-03-26T10:24:12Z")

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does exist in ruby an Encode::Guess like the one available in Perl ?

i’ve seen that exist in Rast but i’m unable to install it on MacOS X  
because of :

checking Berkeley DB version… configure: error: 4.2.52 is required

even if i’ve allready installed THAT precise version :

> ls -al /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib/  
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Mar 26 10:03 …  
> -rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 1301688 Mar 26 10:03 libdb-4.2.a  
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 yvon yvon 784364 Mar 26 10:00 libdb-4.2.dylib  
> -rw-r–r-- 1 yvon yvon 814 Mar 26 10:00 libdb-4.2.la  
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 Mar 26 10:03 libdb-4.dylib -\>  
> libdb-4.2.dylib  
> -rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 1301688 Mar 26 10:03 libdb.a  
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 Mar 26 10:03 libdb.dylib -\>  
> libdb-4.2.dylib

and also even after doing symlinks between /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib  
and /usr/lib…

i’d like not to stay with an hybrid solution calling perl script from  
ruby…