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libiconv Problems with MAMP, PHP, and Ruby

This past week I was having some trouble with a PHP application that tries to shell out to an external Ruby script. The problem was only occuring on my development MacBook Pro, where I had installed MAMP 2.0.5 to run the application. I was able to hit the straight PHP pages without a problem. But […]

Some Useful Iconv Functionality

Much of the work I do involves heavy manipulation of documents and text data for display on the web, and in various file formats. Necessarily, I deal with character encodings and related issues on nearly a daily basis. One of the programs I rely upon for this work is iconv, also known as libiconv. While […]

Converting to UTF-16 and UCS-2 with Iconv

Recently the SME Toolkit, a project sponsored by the International Finance Corporation (a member of the World Bank Group), was attempting to send international SMS messages. This gave everyone on the team a good lesson in character encodings. We had previously utilized UTF-16 to send our SMS messages to the telephone company which we were […]

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libiconv Problems with MAMP, PHP, and Ruby

Some Useful Iconv Functionality

Converting to UTF-16 and UCS-2 with Iconv