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Convert A UTF-8 String To ISO-8859-1

01.21.2008

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        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 : "CÃ©dez le passage aux franÃ§ais".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

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