From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2008-04-04T01:29:15+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 in Ruby

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Vaibhav Bhandari <vaibhavb@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all -
>
>  Whats the recommended way to ensure that a string sent over the wire is
>  UTF-8. I want to do a post to a web-service and the content needs to be
>  UTF-8.
>
>  Whats the best way to do -
>  "content".encoding('UTF-8')
>
>  Thanks in advance.
>
>  regards,
>  Vaibhav

Maybe:

require 'kconv'
"content".toutf8

^ manveru