[Rails] Re: Encoding

Hi Erica,

I ran into similar situation a while ago for a webservice app I was
working on where I had to handle a lot of bad / untrusted non-utf8
data, and found a fix that met the needs of the app using Iconv
(http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/index.html)
following a strategy outlined by Paul Battley (http://po-ru.com/diary/
fixing-invalid-utf-8-in-ruby-revisited/):

...
def AppUtil.force_utf8(str)
ic = Iconv.new('UTF-8//IGNORE', 'UTF-8')
return ic.iconv("#{str} ")[0..-2]
end
...

Jeff

On Jun 16, 5:27 pm, Erica <ericarhol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's a good solution for fixing character encoding problems for
> compatibility between ascii and utf-8?  The database is postgres and
> is encoded in utf-8.
>
> Once in awhile there will be a compatibility error from strings from a
> webform.
>
> Is there a command to fix this besides using
> a_string.force_encoding('utf-8')?  Even this doesn't seem to always
> work either.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erica

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