Just a clarification for my previous email:
"The Iconv class (inside the stdlib iconv package, rdoc:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/classes/Iconv.html)
docs lead one to believe that Iconv.conv is equivalent *to Iconv.iconv and
Iconv#iconv*. As I'm going
to demonstrate, this is not the case. Furthermore, the behavior of
both Iconv.iconv and Iconv#iconv seems to be strange, surprising, and
quite possibly also buggy."
Tirkal