I have a Ruby script that generates a ANSI file.
I want to converting ANSI to UTF8 file.
What's the easiest way to do it?
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A:
If your data is between ascii range 0 to 0x7F, its valid UTF8, so you don't need to do anything.
Or, if there is characters above 0x7F, you could use Iconv
text=Iconv.iconv('UTF-8', 'ascii',text)
S.Mark
2010-04-28 04:54:39
I solution my problem.My code is:text=Iconv.iconv('UTF-8', 'gb2312',text)
HelloWorld
2010-04-28 05:59:22
Oh, ok, I didn't know your encoding was 'gb2312', so I put 'ascii' as example. You should have asked gb2312 to UTF8 in question. but anyway, glad to know its works.
S.Mark
2010-04-28 06:01:15
A:
Any ASCII file is a valid UTF8 file, going by your Q's title, so no conversion is needed. I don't know what a UIF8 file is, going by your Q's text, so different from its title.
Alex Martelli
2010-04-28 04:58:18
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A:
The 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format (UTF-8) was designed to be backwards compatible with the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). Therefore, by definition, any valid ASCII sequence is also a valid UTF-8 sequence. For more information, read the UTF FAQ and Unicode FAQ.
Michael Aaron Safyan
2010-04-28 05:04:54