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December 18, 2013 03:47
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Fixes issues when dealing with ISO-8859-1 ("LATIN-1") encoded files, which are very common with government data and such.
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| def fix_encoding(fn) | |
| q = File.read(fn) | |
| File.open(fn, 'w') { |f| f << q.encode("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1") } | |
| end |
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