From: Jimmy Kofler <koflerjim@...>
Date: 2008-05-01T23:03:25+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 in Ruby

> UTF-8 in Ruby
> Posted by Vaibhav Bhandari (Guest) on 03.04.2008 18:05  
> 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


You may also use UTF8REGEX in methods like:

"str".utf8?

"str".clean_utf8

See:

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4527

http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/03/html-charset.html


Cheers,

jk


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