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AHmedRef
AHmedRef

Reputation: 2621

incompatible character encodings ruby

I'm getting the following error with my Ruby 1.9

I tried using (as some resources suggested)

string.force_encoding('utf-8')

But it didn't help!

Any ideas how to resolve this? Is there a way to eliminate such characters before saving to DB? or is a there a way to make them show?

For example, when I want to print:

Opowieść o kulcie przemocy

I get:

Opowie?? o kulcie przemocy

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1252

Answers (1)

Franco Rondini
Franco Rondini

Reputation: 11011

I make it work using this first line of code: 

# encoding: UTF-8

string = "Opowieść o kulcie przemocy"
p string.force_encoding('utf-8')

when i write to the DB , I use the encode and not the force_encoding , for example: 

conn.exec(sql.encode("UTF-8"))

where sql is the statement containing the text that needs to be encoded

Upvotes: 1

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