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The only way I managed to convert german text from latin1-swedish-ci to be able to use in ruby #ruby #encoding #utf
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iconv_latin1_to_utf-8.rb
puts oldproduct.title
# => Gestänge Stahl lang für Tarps (240cm)
i = Iconv.new('LATIN1','UTF-8')
new_title = i.iconv(oldproduct.title).force_encoding("UTF-8")
puts new_title
# => Gestänge Stahl lang für Tarps (240cm)
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