From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-09-17T21:44:23+09:00
Subject: Re: How to clean an xml files from non-utf-8 chars?

On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:07 AM, Krzysieq wrote:

> I have a problem. I'm trying to parse with ruby some test results from
> jmeter, that are stored in xml files. Unfortunately, while they  
> should be utf-8, some of them aren't. Probably because some db data  
> isn't. In any case, this makes other toys break down, like xslt  
> transformation and
> anything else that relies on the xml files being utf-8.
>
> Does anyone know, how to get rid of such characters?

If you can figure out the encoding they are actually in, I recommend  
using Iconv's transliterate mode:

require "iconv"
Iconv.conv("UTF-8//TRANSLIT", old_encoding_name, data)

James Edward Gray II