From: "Pedro G." <pedrogonzalezj@...>
Date: 2012-01-14T01:09:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby1.9: Encoding problems (how to use #force_encoding ?)

"That's correct. Transcoding tries to *transcode* (replace characters
one
at a time), and these high characters in ASCII-8BIT have no Unicode
equivalents."

It isn't true, in fact, \xc characters are Unicode code points and not
ASCII-2 charactes. You have a Unicode String (with encoding UTF-8) with
an encoding incorrectly set to ASCII-2, to solve this problem try this:

begin
  str.encode! Encoding::UTF_8 if str.encoding != Encoding::UTF_8
rescue Encoding::UndefinedConversionError
   #string incorrectly encoded try force
   str.force_encoding Encoding::UTF_8
end

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.