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

With Ruby 1.9:

string.encode("utf-8")

If the string encoding is not known, you may need to set it first:

string.force_encoding("utf-16be").encode("utf-8") # Big-endian
string.force_encoding("utf-16le").encode("utf-8") # Little-endian