Method: Rex::Text.to_utf8

Defined in:
lib/rex/text.rb

.to_utf8(str) ⇒ Object

Converts ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8



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# File 'lib/rex/text.rb', line 378

def self.to_utf8(str)

  if str.respond_to?(:encode)
    # Skip over any bytes that fail to convert to UTF-8
    return str.encode('utf-8', { :invalid => :replace, :undef => :replace, :replace => '' })
  end

  begin
    Iconv.iconv("utf-8","iso-8859-1", str).join(" ")
  rescue
    raise ::RuntimeError, "Your installation does not support iconv (needed for utf8 conversion)"
  end
end