http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:15:44 GMT DZone Snippets: convert code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5019 Convert a utf string to iso, used this when generating a pdf with pdf-writer in Rails, all my text is UTF8 but pdf-writer does not support this. <br /> <br /><code> <br />#add this to environment.rb <br />#call to_iso on any UTF8 string to get a ISO string back <br />#example : "Cédez le passage aux français".to_iso <br /> <br />class String <br /> require 'iconv' #this line is not needed in rails ! <br /> def to_iso <br /> Iconv.conv('ISO-8859-1', 'utf-8', self) <br /> end <br />end <br /></code> Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:35:26 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5019 drcorbeille (Christian Meichtry)