Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
ruby incorrect encoding of pound sign(£)
Problem
You want to pass the £ sign to an http service, but the ruby CGI.escape encodes it incorrectly.
Solution
After using ruby’s CGI.escape for the string as:
sms_msg_tmp=CGI.escape(sms_code)
then replace the encoding with the pound sign encoding as in:
sms_msg=sms_msg_tmp.gsub(’%C2%A3′,’%A3′)
It should then pass the correct value for the £ sign.