infused/ansel

# ANSEL

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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/>
- Report bugs: <http://github.com/infused/ansel/issues>
- Questions? Email [keithm@infused.org](mailto:keithm@infused.org?subject=ANSEL)
  with ANSEL in the subject line

## Compatibility

ANSEL is compatible with the following Rubies:

* 3.1.x
* 3.2.x
* 3.3.x

If you need ANSEL conversion in Ruby 1.8, see my [ansel_iconv](http://github.com/infused/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](https://groups.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=6450),
also known as ANSEL, is a character set encoding used primarily for
bibliographic and genealogical data. It is used in library systems worldwide and is one of the official character
encodings supported by the [Gedcom
5.5](http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pmcbride/gedcom/55gctoc.htm)
standard.

## LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2006-2024 Keith Morrison <keithm@infused.org>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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