Hey, I am glad that my little post helped!! On Jul 7, 5:45 pm, Danimal <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow! > > Someone else dealing with the exact same thing as me! > > Matt: your suggestion to use the "-m utf-8" flag for antiword was > exactly the right solution. Conceptually it makes the most sense, too. > I.e.: "Convert this Word doc to UTF-8 and parse it into text" as the > first step. Much much nicer! > > It's good to know that Iconv could probably do the same thing later in > the process, but it's nice to just handle it up-front and the > resulting String object is already UTF-8. Whee! > > Thank you! (my solution was much less than 38 hours, primarily thanks > to this thread) > > -Danimal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
