Question

I have a string values which is encoded in UTF-8. But also they may contain unicode chars.

For ex;

"\u0131".encoding
=> #<Encoding:UTF-8>

“\u0131” is “ı”.

how can i convert all unicode chars to utf-8?

Thanks

Çağdaş

Answer 1

utf-8 is an encoding for unicode characters. You don’t have to convert anything, your characters are already encoded in utf-8. If they are displayed as \u0131 or ı depends on the displaying program.