From: Levin Alexander <levin@...>
Date: 2006-01-23T08:11:11+09:00
Subject: Re: remove non-ASCII characters in a string

On 1/22/06, ruby talk <rubytalk@gmail.com> wrote:> What is considered an ascii char? i used the> http://www.lookuptables.com/ chart from ! to ~ or 33 .. 127
I use everything <127 because I want to preserve tabs and linebreaks
> def remove_nonascii(replacement)
This does not work if the source text is UTF-8 encoded.  On my machine:
  str = "旦"  #=> "\303\266"  str.remove_nonascii #=> "??"
-Levin