From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-12T20:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Saving an UTF-8 file

Miquel Oliete wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I have a problem (newbie problem).
> 
> I don't know how to write a file using utf-8 encoding. Can you help
> me.

utf-8 is simply 8-bit bytes. Save your data like this:

# "data" contain the text data

File.open(file_path,"w") { |f| f.write data }

utf-8 refers to a convention regarding the content of the bytes and how they
are interpreted when read. It isn't something you can specify in a
plain-text file. It can be inferred from the format of the bytes, but that
is an open interpretation.

http://dict.die.net/utf-8/

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Paul Lutus
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