Thanks,  this did the job...

Horacio

Sunday 23 October 2005 01:41、nobu.nokada / softhome.net さんは書きました:
> Hi,
>
> At Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:23:27 +0900,
>
> Horacio Sanson wrote in [ruby-talk:162037]:
> > I am trying to convert some text data read from a web page from one
> > charset to UTF-8 using Iconv but I am getting an IllegalSequence all the
> > time.
> >
> > #puts @body
> > puts Iconv.new("sjis", "utf8").iconv(@body)
>
> It will convert from UTF8 to SJIS.
>
>   Iconv.conv("utf8", "sjis", @body)
>
> The order comes from iconv_open(3) defined by SUSv2.