I used VPIM to create VCards from employees in my database which stores the employee’s data UTF-8 encoded. Then I wanted to give the user the possibility to download them. And of course half of the employees’ names were corrupted because I didn’t convert them to LATIN1 (ISO 8859-1). so here’s what i came up with:
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Posts Tagged ‘ruby’
Ruby: Convert Strings from UTF-8 to LATIN1 (ISO 8859-1) with Iconv
Thursday, April 30th, 2009RubyGems: undefined method ‘manage_gems’ for Gem:Module (NoMethodError)
Thursday, April 30th, 2009After updating RubyGems I got the following error message:
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Installing sqlite3 for Rails on Windows XP
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Here is a short description how to install sqlite3 with RubyGems on Windows XP.