title: Converting UTF8 to ANSI with Ruby
body: <p>I have a Ruby script that generates a UTF8 CSV file remotely in a Linux machine and then transfers the file to a Windows machine thru SFTP. </p>
  
  <p>I then need to open this file with Excel, but Excel doesn't get UTF8, so I always need to open the file in a text editor that has the capability to convert UTF8 to ANSI.</p>
  
  <p>I would love to do this programmatically using Ruby and avoid the manual conversion step. What's the easiest way to do it?</p>
  
  <p>PS: I tried using iconv but had no success.</p>