# Problem with Iconv

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-iconv/174373>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 25, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-iconv/174373 "2009-08-25T21:18:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![yankees26](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/eb9ed0/32.png) [@yankees26](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yankees26)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-iconv/174373/1 "2009-08-25T21:18:50Z")

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Hello!

Here is my code:

require ‘iconv’

result = Iconv.iconv(‘ascii//translit//IGNORE’, ‘utf-8’, “zażółć  
gęślą  
jaźń”)  
puts result.to\_s.gsub(/[^\x00-\x7F]+/, ‘’).gsub(/[^\w\_ -]+/i, ‘’)

Result (Mac OS X Leopard):

code/Rails/x[master]% port list | grep iconv  
libticonv @1.1.0 math/libticonv  
p5-text-iconv @1.4 perl/p5-text-iconv  
libiconv @1.12 textproc/libiconv  
code/Rails/x[master]% ruby -v  
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-darwin9]  
code/Rails/x[master]% ruby test.rb  
zazolc gesla jazn

This is what I want, but on my production (Ubuntu) machine i get much  
different result:

rails@li103-32:~$ dpkg -l | grep iconv  
ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-1build1  
converts between character sets in Perl  
rails@li103-32:~$ ruby -v  
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i686-linux]  
Ruby Enterprise Edition 20090610  
rails@li103-32:~$ ruby test.rb  
za gl ja

What may causing this error? Maybe i need to install additional  
packages?