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Using charklock_holmes on Heroku Jun 11

charlock_holmes is a useful gem if you have to deal with user supplied data which may come in a variety of text-encodings. Not only does it enable you to detect the encoding of a string, but it also allows you to transcode the string to a different encoding.

charklock_holmes uses libicu to deal with...

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Articles tagged 'heroku'

Using charklock_holmes on Heroku Jun 11