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My previous question is answered but there's a few more things I don't understand.

I have a yaml file which contains a field with a utf-8 character:

:name: O\xE2\x80\x99Reilly

When I load the yaml in irb:

>puts name.encoding => UTF-8
>name => "O\xE2\x80\x99Reilly"
>puts name => O’Reilly

When I load the yaml in Rails:

>puts name.encoding => UTF-8 
>puts name => Oâ[80][99]Reilly
>puts name.force_encoding('utf-8') => Oâ[80][99]Reilly
>puts Iconv('iso-8859-1', '', name) => O’Reilly

Q3: Why does rails print it's initial utf-8 string as if it's iso-8859-1, and the string converted to iso-8859-1 as if it's utf-8?

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Your config/application.rb file in rails probably has this:

config.encoding = "utf-8"

This is only an answer to the first Q and may or may not have any relevance to the next 2 :)

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