Encoding and bytesize : encoding « String « Ruby






  1. Ruby
  2. String
  3. encoding

Encoding and bytesize


euro1 = "\u20AC"                     # Start with the Unicode Euro character
puts euro1                           # Prints "€"
euro1.encoding                       # => <Encoding:UTF-8>
euro1.bytesize                       # => 3

euro2 = euro1.encode("iso-8859-15")  # Transcode to Latin-15
puts euro2.inspect                   # Prints "\xA4"
euro2.encoding                       # => <Encoding:iso-8859-15>
euro2.bytesize                       # => 1

euro3 = euro2.encode("utf-8")        # Transcode back to UTF-8
euro1 == euro3                       # => true








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