gitlabhq/lib/gitlab/encode.rb

module Gitlab
  module Encode 
    extend self

    def utf8 message
      return nil unless message

      hash = CharlockHolmes::EncodingDetector.detect(message) rescue {}
      if hash[:encoding]
        CharlockHolmes::Converter.convert(message, hash[:encoding], 'UTF-8')
      else
        message
      end.force_encoding("utf-8")
    # Prevent app from crash cause of 
    # encoding errors
    rescue
      ""
    end
  end
end