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Zero0Ho
Zero0Ho

Reputation: 166

Rails how to response JSON in ISO-8859-1

I want my app to response with body utf-8 and iso-8859-1 encoded per requests with Accept-Charset="utf-8" or Accept-Charset="iso-8859-1". The response body is always JSON.

In my controller, when I doing this

render(json: data, status: :created)

It response with Content-Type="application/json; charset=utf-8" as well.

But how to make a response with body iso-8859-1 encoded when request Accept-Charset="iso-8859-1"?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 418

Answers (1)

Raghav Raman
Raghav Raman

Reputation: 134

In order to do this, you can use the method force_encoding and encoding for example

data = {'name'=>'raghav'}.to_json
data.encoding  #This would return what encoding the value as #<Encoding:UTF-8>
new_data = data.force_encoding('ISO-8859-1') #This would force the encoding
new_data.encoding  #<Encoding:ISO-8859-1>

Also to do this on the specific case you can always read the request.headers hash to determine the encoding.

There is also another method called encode the main difference between these are force_encoding changes the way string is being read from bytes, and encode changes the way string is written without changing the output (if possible)

Upvotes: 1

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