EncodingKawai - little sintax sugar for ruby force_encoding, also working on 1.8.7. gem 'encoding-kawai' ```ruby str._utf8 # str.respond_to?(:force_encoding) ? str.force_encoding('utf-8') : str str._binary # str.respond_to?(:force_encoding) ? str.force_encoding('binary') : str ``` Extend object. ```ruby require 'encoding-kawai/object' [str1, str2]._utf8 {str1 => str2}._utf8 ... ```