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Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 21

Unicode characters break JSON encode/decode

I'm trying to save something as JSON, but it breaks after a Unicode character:

Obj: {
    comment => "test test test £466"
}

=> to_json results in

{
    "comment":"test test test "
}

Obj.inspect puts:

`comment => "test test test \243466"`

Any hints here?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1303

Answers (1)

Kevin Davis
Kevin Davis

Reputation: 2718

It sounds like Daniel has a solution using Iconv, namely:

Iconv.conv('utf-8', 'ISO-8859-1', "incoming text")

Is there another way to to this though? In another question I read that someone was having trouble with iconv on heroku

Upvotes: 1

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