Ruby encoding issue with nested key

ruby

Solution

thing['subject'][1].force_encoding('utf-8')
puts thing.to_json

Produces:

{"author_id":[0,1],"subject":["","Сделать грамотный внешний вид для имеющегося"]}

Since you don't know where the strings will be, the best option that comes to mind at the moment is to recursively traverse the Hash, force_encoding all strings. There may be a more elegant solution.

Problem

In order to solve the problem with YAML incompatibility I'm trying to write a command-line script in Ruby. The problem it that I'm totally unfamiliar with Ruby. So I've made the following script: ``` require 'json' require 'yaml' thing = YAML.load('--- author_id: - 0 - 1 subject: - "" - !binary | 0KHQtNC10LvQsNGC0Ywg0LPRgNCw0LzQvtGC0L3Ri9C5INCy0L3QtdGI0L3Q uNC5INCy0LjQtCDQtNC70Y8g0LjQvNC10Y7RidC10LPQvtGB0Y8= ') puts thing.to_json # puts thing['subject'][1].to_json # Issues the same error ``` And now I'm getting `yaml2json.rb:15:in`encode': "\xD0" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError)` How to make it think that the decoded base64 is in UTF-8? Generally I don't know the exact name of a key, `subject` is only an example.

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