A Rubyist's Introduction to Character Encoding, Unicode and UTF-8

30-Jan-2020 2199
It's very likely that you've seen a Ruby exception like UndefinedConversionError or IncompatibleCharacterEncodings. It's less likely that you've understood what the exception means. This article will help. You'll learn how character encodings work and how they're implemented in Ruby. By the end, you'll be able to understand and fix these errors much more easily.So what is a "character encoding" anyway?.
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