Encoding error in content get from open-uri in ruby on rails

Question

In some cases when I use open to get a web page in Ruby the content of the page has an encoding error. Example:

open("http://www.google.com.br").read

Chars like ç and ã are replaced by ?

How can I get the right chars?

Answer 1

this seems to work:

require 'iconv'
i = Iconv.new('UTF-8','LATIN1')
i.iconv(open('http://google.com.br').read)