Ruby 1.9: Regular Expressions with unknown input encoding

Question

Is there an accepted way to deal with regular expressions in Ruby 1.9 for which the encoding of the input is unknown? Let\'s say my input happens to be UTF-16 encoded:

Answer 1

Follow the advice of this page: http://gnuu.org/2009/02/02/ruby-19-common-problems-pt-1-encoding/ and add

# encoding: utf-8

to the top of your rb file.