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Convert Datatel export files to UTF-8 using Ruby
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gistfile1.rb
=begin
I am using Ruby to parse exported data generated from Datatel. I ran into a strange problem with conflicting character sets.
Datatel's internal character set is: ISO_8859-1
Datatel will set the metadata in the export text file to be: US-ASCII
And I want Ruby to use this charset: UTF-8
=end
Iconv.new("UTF-8","ISO_8859-1").iconv(File.open('datatel_export_file.txt').read)
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