Iconv::IllegalSequence raised

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Hello,

I’m having some problems with iconv. I’m trying to convert (as an
example) http://www.atame.org/a/abel_velazquez/ from iso-8859-1 to utf8.
If I use this on the command line: ‘iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8
index.html’ it works fine. But the following code:

require 'open-uri’
require ‘iconv’

open(“http://www.atame.org/a/abel_velazquez/”) do |f|
puts Iconv.conv(“iso-8859-1”, “utf8”, f.read)
end

returns:

iconv.rb:7:in `conv’: "\341zquez\n "… (Iconv::IllegalSequence)

I’m not sure why this would be. This is on ruby 1.8.1 (2004-02-06) [i686-linux-gnu]
I had dblack try it and he got the same result.

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Oy nevermind. dblack informed me that it should have been
Iconv.conv(“utf8”, “iso-8859-1”, f.read) not the other way around.

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On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:49:57AM +0900, Zachary P. Landau wrote:

Hello,

I’m having some problems with iconv. I’m trying to convert (as an
example) ABEL VELAZQUEZ Tabs: Acordes de Guitarra from iso-8859-1 to utf8.
If I use this on the command line: ‘iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8
index.html’ it works fine. But the following code:

require ‘open-uri’
require ‘iconv’

open(“ABEL VELAZQUEZ Tabs: Acordes de Guitarra”) do |f|
puts Iconv.conv(“iso-8859-1”, “utf8”, f.read)
end

returns:

iconv.rb:7:in `conv’: "\341zquez\n "… (Iconv::IllegalSequence)

I’m not sure why this would be. This is on ruby 1.8.1 (2004-02-06) [i686-linux-gnu]
I had dblack try it and he got the same result.

–
Zachary P. Landau kapheine@hypa.net
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