Ruby 2.0 iconv replacement

Question

I don't know Ruby but want to run an script where:

D:/Heather/Ruby/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in `require': cannot load such file -- iconv (LoadError)

it works somehow if I comment iconv code but it will be much better if I can recode this part:

return Iconv.iconv('UTF-8//IGNORE', 'UTF-8', (s + ' ') ).first[0..-2] 

without iconv. Maybe I can use String#encode here somehow?

Answer 1

Iconv was deprecated (removed) in 1.9.3. You can still install it.

Reference Material if you unsure: https://rvm.io/packages/iconv/

However the suggestion is that you don't and rather use:

string.encode("UTF-8", :invalid => :replace, :undef => :replace, :replace => "?") 

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