Ruby 1.8.6 Rails 2.3.2 The DB is runnig with UTF-8 codification. I need to export some text field from the DB to TXT file for import with another app runnig under DOS (no comments please...). I am having problems exporting texts containing chars like á, ú or é. Here an example os the behaviour: #code require ''iconv'' text = ''aeú'' Iconv.new(''ascii//translit'', ''utf-8'').iconv(text) -> Raise an error. Iconv.new(''ascii//ignore'', ''utf-8'').iconv(text) -> ''ae'' (ú was truncated) How can I convert chars (like ú), with ASCII codification greater than 127, correspondig with the EXTENDED ASCII charset ? Thanks Fabian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.