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From: Homer Simpson on 23 Feb 2010 15:39
Using Ruby 1.8 (for Rails 2.3.5)

I have a cvs file that was exported from an Excel file.

Some of the text contains characters like “Test in quotes” (I think
these are smart quotes)

I can properly change this to UTF-8 via:

Iconv.conv("utf-8", "cp1251", text)

Other text contains text like spanish characters like Señora. I can
properly change this to UTF-8 like this:

Iconv.conv("utf-8", "iso-8859-1", text)

However I cannot figure out how to get some text that has both types of
characters like this:

“Test in quotes” Señora

If I don't get these properly into utf-8 they do not persist properly in
mysql (they appear as ?)

Any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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From: Homer Simpson on 26 Feb 2010 09:08
Any encoding experts out there?

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