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3 steps to fix encoding problems in Ruby

by Justin Weiss —

You only really think about a string’s encoding when it breaks. When you check your exception tracker and see Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError: "\xFE" on UTF-8 staring you in the face. When you have a bad encoding, how do you figure out what broke? And how can you fix it?

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