# UTF-8 -\> iso8859-15 **URL:** \ **Category:** ruby-talk\ **Created:** [25 July 2003 20:42 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/utf-8-iso8859-15/7028 "2003-07-25T20:42:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Andreas\_S2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Andreas\_S2](https://rubytalk.org/u/Andreas_S2)\ **Post date:** [25 July 2003 20:42 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/utf-8-iso8859-15/7028/1 "2003-07-25T20:42:31Z")
Simple Question: how can I convert UTF-8 strings (from REXML) to iso8859-15? Thanks Andreas > **···** > > – > AVR-Tutorial, über 350 Links > Forum für AVRGCC und MSPGCC > -\> [http://www.mikrocontroller.net](http://www.mikrocontroller.net) ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_J\_Reed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@Mark\_J\_Reed](https://rubytalk.org/u/Mark_J_Reed)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2003 02:24 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/utf-8-iso8859-15/7028/2 "2003-07-30T02:24:08Z")
You would think that was a simple question, but I don’t have a simple answer. The YAML homepage mentions a Ruby interface to the Iconv library, but the link it provides back to RAA doesn’t find anything. Was there an Iconv library that disappeared?? -Mark > **···** > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 08:32:20PM +0000, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > > > Simple Question: how can I convert UTF-8 strings (from REXML) to > > iso8859-15? ---
**Author:** ![daz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@daz](https://rubytalk.org/u/daz)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2003 02:24 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/utf-8-iso8859-15/7028/3 "2003-07-30T02:24:37Z")
[http://ruby-talk.org/76747](http://ruby-talk.org/76747) ? > **···** > > “Mark J. Reed” [markjreed@mail.com](mailto:markjreed@mail.com) wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 08:32:20PM +0000, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > > > > > Simple Question: how can I convert UTF-8 strings (from REXML) to > > > iso8859-15? > > > > You would think that was a simple question, but I don’t have a simple > > answer. The YAML homepage mentions a Ruby interface to the Iconv > > library, but the link it provides back to RAA doesn’t find anything. > > Was there an Iconv library that disappeared?? > > > > -Mark ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_J\_Reed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@Mark\_J\_Reed](https://rubytalk.org/u/Mark_J_Reed)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2003 02:35 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/utf-8-iso8859-15/7028/4 "2003-07-30T02:35:21Z")
AS = Andreas Schwarz MR = me D = daz > Simple Question: how can I convert UTF-8 strings (from REXML) to > iso8859-15? > You would think that was a simple question, but I don’t have a simple > answer. The YAML homepage mentions a Ruby interface to the Iconv > library, but the link it provides back to RAA doesn’t find anything. > Was there an Iconv library that disappeared?? > [http://ruby-talk.org/76747](http://ruby-talk.org/76747) > ? Thanks, but that doesn’t help in this case. The referenced message includes a pointer to a port of libiconv to Windows, but libiconv I already have. What I don’t have is the code to use it from Ruby. I could write an extension, but what confused me was the reference on the YAML page. It seemed to imply that this had already been done, and even had a link that should have taken me to the Ruby module on RAA, but no such module was there. -Mark ---
**Author:** ![why\_the\_lucky\_stiff1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/898d66/32.png) [@why\_the\_lucky\_stiff1](https://rubytalk.org/u/why_the_lucky_stiff1)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2003 03:12 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/utf-8-iso8859-15/7028/5 "2003-07-30T03:12:37Z")
Oh, sorry. I need to remove that link. The iconv lib is now included with 1.8.0. WrItten by Nobu. If you need it for 1.6.8, I found the link from FreeBSD ports (/usr/ports/converters/ruby-iconv): [http://member.nifty.ne.jp/nokada/archive/iconv-0.5.tar.gz](http://member.nifty.ne.jp/nokada/archive/iconv-0.5.tar.gz) Also, please note that YAML 0.50 or newer don’t utilize iconv for conversion and in fact doesn’t do any character set conversion. \_why > **···** > > Mark J. Reed ([markjreed@mail.com](mailto:markjreed@mail.com)) wrote: > > > I could write an extension, but what confused me was the reference on > > the YAML page. It seemed to imply that this had already been done, and > > even had a link that should have taken me to the Ruby module > > on RAA, but no such module was there. ---
**Author:** ![Nobuyoshi\_Nakada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/edb3f5/32.png) [@Nobuyoshi\_Nakada](https://rubytalk.org/u/Nobuyoshi_Nakada)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2003 03:53 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/utf-8-iso8859-15/7028/6 "2003-07-30T03:53:52Z")
Hi, > **···** > > At Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:12:37 +0900, why the lucky stiff wrote: > > > Oh, sorry. I need to remove that link. The iconv lib is now included > > with 1.8.0. WrItten by Nobu. If you need it for 1.6.8, I found the > > link from FreeBSD ports (/usr/ports/converters/ruby-iconv): > > > > [http://member.nifty.ne.jp/nokada/archive/iconv-0.5.tar.gz](http://member.nifty.ne.jp/nokada/archive/iconv-0.5.tar.gz) > > This is out of date. The latest ruby-iconv for 1.6 is > contained in shim. > > [http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=shim-ruby16\_18](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=shim-ruby16_18) > > – > Nobu Nakada ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_J\_Reed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@Mark\_J\_Reed](https://rubytalk.org/u/Mark_J_Reed)\ **Post date:** [31 July 2003 03:36 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/utf-8-iso8859-15/7028/7 "2003-07-31T03:36:32Z")
Oh! Well, in that case, the answer to the original question is simple. ``` require 'iconv' iconv = Iconv.new('ISO-8859-15', 'UTF-8') latin9text = iconv.iconv(utf8text) ``` I find the (to, from) argument order counterintuitive, but that’s not Nobu’s fault - it’s the order of the underlying C function iconv\_open. -Mark > **···** > > > At Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:12:37 +0900, \> why the lucky stiff wrote: > > > > > The iconv lib is now included with 1.8.0 ---
**Author:** ![Nobuyoshi\_Nakada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/edb3f5/32.png) [@Nobuyoshi\_Nakada](https://rubytalk.org/u/Nobuyoshi_Nakada)\ **Post date:** [31 July 2003 04:02 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/utf-8-iso8859-15/7028/8 "2003-07-31T04:02:47Z")
Hi, > **···** > > At Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:36:32 +0900, Mark J. Reed wrote: > > > I find the (to, from) argument order counterintuitive, but that’s not Nobu’s > > fault - it’s the order of the underlying C function iconv\_open. > > Agree. I often miss it too. > > – > Nobu Nakada