# Re: Codepage 850 character set

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-codepage-850-character-set/48898>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 26, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-codepage-850-character-set/48898 "2005-11-26T14:25:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nuralanur](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@Nuralanur](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nuralanur)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-codepage-850-character-set/48898/1 "2005-11-26T14:25:08Z")

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Dear Dsmorey,

there is a Ruby wrapper for iconv, a program to do character encoding  
conversions,  
you can find information about Ruby and iconv here:

\_[Peak Obsession](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/iconv/versions/new_)  
([Peak Obsession](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/iconv/versions/new))

I hope that will help.

Best regards,

Axel E.