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

Dear Peter,

there have been lengthy discussions about Unicode and Ruby on this
list.
I remember responding to an upcase/downcase question here:

_http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/183176_
(http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/183176)

You can do character encoding conversions using iconv, which is
part of Ruby. There is documentation and examples available
here:

_http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/index.html_
(http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/index.html)

Best regards,

Axel