string_utf8¶ ↑

turn ruby strings encoding to unicode (utf-8) from any other

install¶ ↑

gem install string_utf8

usage¶ ↑

~~~ruby require “string/utf8”

str = read_string_from_somewhere

=> “xD6xD0xCExC4”¶ ↑

str.utf8!

=> “中文”¶ ↑

p $enc

=> “gb18030”¶ ↑

~~~

tech detail¶ ↑

This gem adds a monkey patch to String class, adding a method naming 'utf8!'.

It guesses what encoding the string is using, and force it to use utf-8 encoding.

You can get what former encoding the string is using by checking $enc