The encoding that Notepad++ just calls "ANSI", does anyone know what to call it for Ruby? -


i have bunch of .txt's notepad++ says (in drop-down "encoding" menu) "ansi".

they have german characters in them, [äöüß], display fine in notepad++.

but don't show right in irb when file.read 'this german text example.txt' them.

so know argument should give encoding.default_external=?

(i'm assuming that'd solution, right?)

when 'utf-8' or 'cp850', reads "ansi" file "äöüß" in "\xe4\xf6\xfc\xdf"...

(please don't hesitate mention apparently "obvious" things in answers; i'm pretty newbish can , still know enough ask question.)

what mean iso/iec 8859-1 (aka latin-1), iso-8859-1, iso/iec 8859-15 (aka latin-9) or windows-1252 (aka cp 1252). 4 of them have ä @ position 0xe4.


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