Question

I am trying to perform searches in Japanese using the custom google search api as follows:

require 'httparty'
require 'json'

class Search
  include HTTParty
  format :json
end

@response = Search.get('https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=etcetc&q=JAPANESE SEARCH TERM')

When Japanese text is used it fails complaining of “invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)”

How can I input Japanese text in a format which Ruby allows and google custom api also accepts?

Thanks for any advice.

Answer 1

add

# encoding: utf-8

to the top of the file