On 13 Feb 2009, at 17:15, jdmuys@free.fr wrote:
[...] require "iconv" [...]
It's not ideal, but it's a useable workaround. Thank you very much.
You can try Ruby 1.9 (and declare the file you open as latin-1), I believe this will automatically do the proper recodings, if the various streams are tagged properly.