Strings compares in UTF-8 and ANSI

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I'm grabbing strings from an IE browsers using WATIR. The text in IE
is encoded in UTF-8 and shows up correctly in a DOS prompt. I want to
do string compares between this UTF-8 string with a ANSI string from
my script. How can I convert the UTF-8 to an ANSI?

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[Peter C <pkchau@gmail.com>, 2005-03-23 19.19 CET]

I'm grabbing strings from an IE browsers using WATIR. The text in IE
is encoded in UTF-8 and shows up correctly in a DOS prompt. I want to
do string compares between this UTF-8 string with a ANSI string from
my script. How can I convert the UTF-8 to an ANSI?

I don't know what are ANSI strings. If they are 8-bit, latin-1 encoded
strings, then you can convert between them and utf8 using pack and unpack:

utf8 -> latin1: "abcd".unpack("U*").pack("C*")

latin1 -> utf8: "abcd".unpack("C*").pack("U*")

HTH