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On May 16, 2013 8:23 AM, "Matt Jones" <al2o3cr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wednesday, 15 May 2013 07:30:14 UTC-4, UA wrote:
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>> I have a Rails app. One of my clients is importing French Text which
>> is appearing weirdly. Check below example:
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>>     1. str = "--- \nFrench: \"3. Combien de r\\xC3\\xA9gions y a-t-il
>> au Cameroon?\"\nEnglish: 3. How many regions are there in Cameroon?\n"
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>> Can someone assist please?
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> Where is this text coming from? Because that string looks like YAML, complete with the opening "---". \xC3\xA9 is the UTF-8 encoding of codepoint U+00E9, "small letter e with acute", something you'd expect in French text.
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> If you do `YAML.load(str)` in 1.9 or higher, this is what appears:
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> irb: YAML.load(str)
> ===> {"French"=>"3. Combien de régions y a-t-il  au Cameroon?", "English"=>"3. How many regions are there in Cameroon?"}
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> --Matt Jones

That's what I thought originally, too.

When I copied the OP's string as written, and fed it to YAML.load, it flubbed the translation, reversing thebyte order. As far as I can tell, I have UTF-8 set everywhere.   

So I'm not sure why it works for you but not for me...

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