Module: DwcaHunter::Encoding

Defined in:
lib/dwca_hunter/encoding.rb

Overview

Encoding module fixes encoding issues with data

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.latin1_to_utf8(file_path) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/dwca_hunter/encoding.rb', line 6

def self.latin1_to_utf8(file_path)
  new_file = file_path + ".utf_8"
  puts "Creating #{new_file}"
  r = File.open(file_path)
  w = File.open(new_file, "w:utf-8")
  he = HTMLEntities.new
  r.each do |l|
    l = l
    l = l.encode("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", invalid: :replace, replace: "?")
    l = he.decode(l)
    w.write l
  end
  r.close
  w.close
  new_file
end