How do I convert a UCS2 string into UTF8?

Question

How to convert a string that is in UCS2 (2 bytes per character) into a UTF8 string in Ruby?

Answer 1

You should look into iconv, which is part of the Ruby standard library. It is designed for this task.

Specifically,

 Iconv.iconv("utf-8", "utf-16", str).first

should handle the conversion.