Hi list,
I run a deep search through this group and other resources online but
I have been unable to find whether is there a way to guess the charset
of a string in Ruby 1.8.6.

I need to ensure a string is always UTF-8 encoded but Iconv requires
the developer to specify both in and out charset.
On the other side, Kconv provides a #guess() method but doesn't
support Latin or Western encodings.

Any suggestion?