Nikolai Weibull schrieb:
> My suggested interface was not limited to Unicode.  I only have small
> pieces of code for this that try to guess UTF-8/16/16LE/16BE, ascii,
> and ISO-8859-*.

Are these modules already available via Ruby-Forge (or another place)? - I ask, 
because it doesn't make any sense to reinvent the wheel - and I am to lazy for 
doing a job a second time ;-)

Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner