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I have a string received via the gets.chomp of the TcpSocket class. How can I determine the encoding of this string? Then I need to convert it to the Windows console encoding so I can print it. Is there any built-in way or third-party library to do it in Ruby?
Thanks in advance.
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All strings in a . NET Framework program are stored as 16-bit Unicode characters.
But the most important evolution is that in Ruby 1.8, strings are considered as a sequence of bytes when in Ruby 1.9, strings are considered as a sequence of codepoints. A sequence of codepoints, coupled to a specific encoding, allows Ruby to handle encodings. Indeed, on disk, a string is stored as a sequence of bytes.
Use this method #encoding- Returns the Encoding object that represents the encoding of obj.
Take look at the class Encoding to get the ideas, about how to convert to required encodings.
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