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How do I write the £ (GBP) sign in a CSV file from Ruby and read it back correctly in Excel?
When I write a CSV file using Ruby containing the £ sign and I open it using Excel I see this symbol instead ¬£.
My understanding is that Ruby uses UTF-8, but Excel interprets this file using a ...
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rspec test failures with present to non-English symbols
I'm comparing multiple files containing russian characters, and that's a result of getting. I replaced the symbols and the tests were properly
My environments: Rails 5.0.0.1 and ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-...
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python equivalent of ruby's ASCII-8BIT encoding scheme
I need to encoding something in ASCII-8BIT because it's part of the specification of the program.
The demo code is written in ruby and they have used Encoding::BINARY
which is equivalent to ASCII-...
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Ruby File Encoding Issues while Streaming
I am using RestClient to stream some files from websites and am running into encoding issues when I write to disk. I'm following this example:
File.open('/path/to/text/file.txt', 'w') {|f|
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ASCII Space Character in Ruby Unicode Escape
Doing some reading and came across this block of code on the topic of Unicode Escapes in Ruby:
money = "\u{20AC 20 A3 20 A5}" # => "€ £ ¥"
I understand that in this ruby syntax, the actual spaces ...
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Encoding::UndefinedConversionError: "\x8C" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8
I know this question is asked many times. But unfortunately I did not get any solution at such question.
My problem is when I do rails s, I am getting the below error. Can anyone suggest me what is ...
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How to convert Haryāna to Haryana with Ruby
I am getting this value from an api and somehow it is sending some special unicode chars in the value. I would like to convert this into a normal ascii string.
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Reading ASCII-encoded files with Ruby 1.9 in a UTF-8 environment
I just upgraded from Ruby 1.8 to 1.9, and most of my text processing scripts now fail with the error invalid byte sequence in UTF-8. I need to either strip out the invalid characters or specify that ...
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"Invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)" error for ä, ü, ö, ß which are Ascii!
My application needs to handle some international characters, namely ä, ü, ö and ß, which are still ascii.
When I tested the behavior of ruby when dealing with these chars, I got this error:
test.rb:...
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