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== Overview

Plugin makes it easy to change database text field encoding on read and before write to database (recode it on fly).
Typical usage scenario is when you have UTF-8 Rails application and legacy database that is not UTF-8 encoded.
Originally published here http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/122881#910282

== Usage
  
recode_legacy_database :from => "ISO-8859-1", :to => "UTF-8"

== License

Public domain. Please put watch at github.com if you like it :)

* Tomasz Bak [ t.bak@selleo.com ]