From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2008-09-17T21:26:19+09:00
Subject: Re: How to clean an xml files from non-utf-8 chars?

On Sep 17, 2008, at 5:15 AM, Brian Candler wrote:

> If you really don't care about the content:
> str.gsub(/[\x80-\xff]/,'?')
> --  


You can have bytes in that range as the first byte of a well-formed  
UTF-8 Byte Sequence.  They just can't represent a single byte.  It's  
just not that simple.

-Rob

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