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rubyutf-8character-encoding
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coffee

Reputation: 3088

How can I use encode utf-8 in Ruby?

I am trying to extract a word from a first line of file:

LOCATION,Feij�,AC,a,b,c

this way:

2.0.0-p247 :005 > File.foreach(file).first

=> "LOCATION,Feij\xF3,AC,a,b,c\r\n"`

but when I try to use split:

2.0.0-p247 :008 > File.foreach(file).first.split(",")

ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 from (irb):8:in split' from (irb):8 from /home/bleh/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/irb:13:in'

What I expected is: Feijó

I already try a lot of combinations like .encode and .force_encoding.

Some ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1603

Answers (1)

matt
matt

Reputation: 79813

The character ó is \xF3 in the ISO-8859-1 encoding, so this is probably the encoding of the file (it could also be CP-1252.

You can specify the encoding as an arg to File::foreach, and you can also ask Ruby to re-encode it to UTF-8 for you:

File.foreach(file, :encoding => 'iso-8859-1:utf-8').first.split(",")

Upvotes: 3

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