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I'm running Ruby 1.8.7 with Rails 2.3.5 on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. I've written a method that should take a string like this, "École À la Découverte" and output a file-system name like this "ecole_a_la_decouverte" : (Iconv.new('US-ASCII//TRANSLIT', 'utf-8').iconv "École À la Découverte").downcase.split.join('_') When I test this line in my code, the test always fails saying that "cole_la_dcouverte" is unequal to "ecole_a_la_decouverte" . The odd thing is that if I insert a debugger line and use the debugger console the test passes. As well, running this line manually in irb and ./script/console

I want to change multiple php files encoding with iconv. I use find and exec option (Reference : http://linux.bigresource.com/Ubuntu-Encoding-Conversion-on-Multiple-Files--4fuXvUwbN.html ) find . -type f -name '*.php' -print -exec iconv -f euc-kr -t utf-8 {} -o {}.utf8 But the error is occured. find: missing argument to `-exec' I just want to convert all php files in a once time. How can i do this with one statement in a bash? You must put either \; or + at the end of the -exec action. find . -type f -name '*.php' -print -exec iconv -f euc-kr -t utf-8 {} -o {}.utf8 \; klaun after some tests

R doesn't display correctly Arabic text. I get very weird stuff when I use Arabic. Here's a screenshot: The problem is that I want to create a wordcloud with Arabic text and I need to solve this problem first. R version: R 2.15.2 GUI 1.53 Leopard build 64-bit (6335) Here are more info: > options("encoding") $encoding [1] "native.enc" > Encoding("الله") [1] "unknown" SessionInfo(): > sessionInfo() R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) locale: [1] C/C/C/C/de_DE/C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via

I'm trying to convert a UTF-8 string to a ISO-8859-1 char* for use in legacy code. The only way I'm seeing to do this is with iconv . I would definitely prefer a completely string -based C++ solution then just call .c_str() on the resulting string. How do I do this? Code example if possible, please. I'm fine using iconv if it is the only solution you know. Mark Ransom I'm going to modify my code from another answer to implement the suggestion from Alf. std::string UTF8toISO8859_1(const char * in) { std::string out; if (in == NULL) return out; unsigned int codepoint; while (*in != 0) { unsigned

I'm trying to get MinGW and MSYS working so I can build iconv and libxml2 in Windows, but I'm finding ./configure and make are giving lots of BSD/Unix related errors that aren't specific enough to google, and not descriptive enough for me to figure out. Can anybody go through some of the steps needed to get iconv and libxml2 .dll/.lib built on a Win32 machine? I'm updating the libraries for some software and I fiddled around with this all day today and haven't figured it out. I got the newest libpng, zlib and curl built with no issues but I see there isn't much support or how-to's for these

Which multibyte-handling library should I use : iconv or mbstring ? After some Googling I didn't find enough arguments to convince me to use one particularly, and I could not get any benchmark (and I'm too lazy do create one :-p). After all maybe this choice doesn't really matters ? Thanks for any piece of advice. I tend to use a combination of both - depending on my needs. I use iconv to convert from one charset to another, but mbstring for simpler operations like mb_strtoupper() and mb_stristr(). But if only one of the libraries is needed I suggest using mbstring purely for it's widespread

I don't see anything illegal - any suggestions on what might be the problem? if (strtolower($matches[1]) != 'utf-8') { var_dump($matches[1]); $xml = iconv($matches[1], 'utf-8', $xml); $xml = str_replace('encoding="'.$matches[1].'"', 'encoding="utf-8"', $xml); } Below is my debug/error string(12) "windows-1252" Notice (8): iconv() [http://php.net/function.iconv]: Detected an illegal character in input string [APP/models/sob_form.php, line 16] I've verified that the above code is indeed line 16 The illegal character is not in $matches[1] , but in $xml Try iconv($matches[1], 'utf-8//TRANSLIT',