Force UTF-8 encoding

[Garrett Lancaster]

I'm writing an upload script for contact management, but having encoding
issues:

#=> Encoding::UndefinedConversionError: "\xFA" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8

I will not always know the encoding supplied, and this is the result of
`some_string.encode("UTF-8")`

I have also tried .force_encoding("UTF-8") to no avail. For now I'm
simply trying to bypass invalid characters by replacing them with ? or
removing them completely so Postgres doesn't blow up on insert.

Any help or advice would be appreciated,
Garrett Lancaster

[Mickael Gerard]

Hi,

In order to solve this issue, I use the chardet gem https://rubygems.org/gems/chardet to identify the file encoding and then I iconv it to utf-8.

Mickael 

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