ANSEL

ANSEL provides character set conversion from ANSEL to UTF-8

Project page: http://github.com/infused/ansel
API Documentation: http://rubydoc.info/github/infused/ansel/frames
Report bugs: http://github.com/infused/ansel/issues
Questions? Email [email protected] with ANSEL in the subject line

Compatibility

ANSEL is tested to be compatible with the following Rubies:

1.9.2
1.9.3
2.0.0
2.1.0
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.1.3
2.1.4
2.1.5
2.2.0
jruby 1.7+

If you need ANSEL convesion in Ruby 1.8, see my ansel_iconv project.

Installation

gem install ansel

Basic Usage

Conversion from ANSEL to UTF-8 is fully supported.

require 'ansel'

converter = ANSEL::Converter.new
converter.convert("\xB9\x004.59") # => "£4.59"

About the ANSEL character set

ANSI/NISO Z39.47, also known as ANSEL, is a character set encoding used primarily for bibliographic and genealogical data. It is one of the official character encodings supported by the Gedcom 5.5 standard.

LICENSE:

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