Class: Datanorm::Helpers::Utf8

Inherits:

Object

• Object
• Datanorm::Helpers::Utf8

Includes:

Calls

Defined in:

lib/datanorm/helpers/utf8.rb

Overview

Converts a String to UTF-8.

Instance Method Summary

• #call ⇒ Object

  I sometimes encounter single spaces to indicate nil in Datanorm.

Instance Method Details

#call ⇒ Object

I sometimes encounter single spaces to indicate nil in Datanorm. So let's filter out those, too.

# File 'lib/datanorm/helpers/utf8.rb', line 13

def call
  return if input.nil? || input == ' ' || input.to_s.empty?

  input.to_s.encode('UTF-8')
end