any PHP or Ruby library to convert Tranditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese or vice versa?

Question

any PHP or Ruby library to convert Tranditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese or vice versa (Big5 <--> GB)? the iconv library won't do it as it merely convert the encoding -- the glyph stays the same.

Answer 1

Try this class for PHP - http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3130.html

Answer 2

You might get some leverage with 1.9

Encoding.constants.grep /gb/i => [:GB18030, :GBK, :GB1988, :GB12345]

Encoding.constants.grep /big5/i => [:Big5, :BIG5, :Big5_HKSCS, :BIG5_HKSCS, :Big5_UAO, :BIG5_UAO]

so it's something like

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/951891/how-can-i-convert-a-string-from-windows-1252-to-utf-8-in-ruby

original = File.open('name', 'r:original_encoding').read

original.force_encoding('new_encoding')

Though I've never tried it.