How to check whether the character is utf-8

Rails
#1

Hi All,

I want to check whether the input string is in UTF-8 encoding formate, I
googled but didnt get any fruitful results, pls assit me , thanks in
advance.

regards,
Loganathan

#2

Hi Loganatha,

Please check this link, let me know if this what you are looking for

http://blog.twodividedbyzero.net/2009/11/adding-accept-charset-attribute-to-html.html

Thanks
Pradeepan

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:13 PM, loganathan sellappa <

#3

Hi Pradeep,

Thanks for your response, I just need to check the string,
string=“ABCDabcd123”
string.encoding.name
it shows IBM4378, but I want to know whether the string is under UTF-8
encoding format or not

regards,
Loganathan

#4

Hi Loganathan,

I guess this might help you with your issue.

Try using this helper:

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4527

It puts a method utf8? on the String. So you can grab the String from
mysql
and see if it is utf8:

my_string.utf8?

If is not, then you can try change the encoding of your String using
other
methods like:

my_string.asciify_utf8
my_string.latin1_to_utf8
my_string.cp1252_to_utf8
my_string.utf16le_to_utf8

Maybe this String is saved on mysql in one of these encodings.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 2:45 PM, loganathan sellappa <