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Created February 16, 2012 01:06
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Trying different encodings under Ruby 1.9
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gistfile1.rb
escaped = CGI.unescape(query)
return escaped if escaped.valid_encoding?
%w[EUC-JP Shift_JIS].each do |encoding|
s = escaped.force_encoding(encoding)
return s.encode("UTF-8") if s.valid_encoding?
end
escaped
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