module Modsvaskr::Encoding
Provide helpers to encode Windows and Linux strings to UTF-8
Public Class Methods
to_utf_8(str)
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Convert a string to UTF-8
- Parameters
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str (String): The string to convert
- Result
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String: The converted string
# File lib/modsvaskr/encoding.rb, line 12 def self.to_utf_8(str) orig_encoding = str.encoding encoding = nil begin encoding = %w[ UTF-8 Windows-1252 ISO-8859-1 ].find { |search_encoding| str.force_encoding(search_encoding).valid_encoding? } ensure str.force_encoding(orig_encoding) end raise "Unknown encoding for string #{str[0..127].inspect}" if encoding.nil? str.encode('UTF-8', encoding) end