Ruby - Transcoding from one encoding to another encoding.

Introduction

The following code opens a file in the UTF-8 encoding system, and translate it to another encoding as the data is read.

Demo

File.open("main.rb", "r:utf-8:iso-8859-1") do |f| 
  puts f.external_encoding #   ww w .  j av a  2  s. c o m
  first_line = f.gets 
  puts first_line.encoding 
end

Result

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