Ruby EBCDIC conversion with String#encode instead of iconv

Question

I used to do it fine with:

Iconv.iconv('ASCII', 'EBCDIC-US', someEBCDICstring)

since ruby 1.9 I get that warning:

iconv will be deprecated in the future, use String#encode instead.

but I can't find any reference of EBCDIC or cp37, cp500, cp875... in the Encoding class:

p Encoding.name_list

Am I supposed to import it from somewhere? Can I add it myself?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 21 '13 at 18:37

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answered Nov 21 '13 at 18:37

AndrewPK

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 28 '19 at 14:48

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Encoding

new Encoding::IBM037 (alias ebcdic-cp-us; dummy)

So this should work:

str = 'xx'
str.encode('IBM037')

answered May 28 '19 at 14:48

knut

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 16 '16 at 04:07

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require 'iconv' # sudo apt-get install ruby-dev && sudo gem install iconv

This works for me...

# set up translation to EBCDIC
trsl = Iconv.new('EBCDIC-US','ASCII')

# translate value
ebcdic = trsl.iconv(somestring)

answered Sep 16 '16 at 04:07

mckenzm

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