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Created May 29, 2012 23:40
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read_file_with_encoding.rb
file = File.open('iso-8859-1.txt', 'r:iso-8859-1')
puts file.external_encoding.name # >> ISO-8859-1
file_content = file.read
puts file_content.encoding.name # >> ISO-8859-1
file = File.open('iso-8859-1.txt', 'r:iso-8859-1:utf-8')
puts file.external_encoding.name # >> ISO-8859-1
file_content = file.read
puts file_content.encoding.name # >> UTF-8
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