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Christian Meichtry http://dr.corbeille.info

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Convert a UTF-8 string to ISO-8859-1

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.

#add this to environment.rb
#call to_iso on any UTF8 string to get a ISO string back
#example : "Cédez le passage aux français".to_iso

class String
  require 'iconv' #this line is not needed in rails !
  def to_iso
    Iconv.conv('ISO-8859-1', 'utf-8', self)
  end
end
to ruby rails string convert utf-8 rubyonrails iconv iso-8859-1 by drcorbeille on Jan 21, 2008
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