From: Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Date: 2008-10-08T23:24:10+09:00
Subject: Re: how to remove strange characters

Stephen Celis wrote:

> Those are multi-byte characters (curly quotes, in this case). You
> probably don't want to get rid of them, but you can use the iconv
> library to transliterate them back to their ASCII almost-equivalents:
> 
>>> string = "To depart in a hurry; abscond:  \342\200\234Your horse has\nabsquatulated!\342\200\235 (Robert M. Bird) To die."
> => "To depart in a hurry; abscond:  \342\200\234Your horse
> has\nabsquatulated!\342\200\235 (Robert M. Bird) To die."
>>> require 'iconv'
> => true
>>> puts Iconv.iconv('ascii//translit', 'utf-8', string).to_s
> To depart in a hurry; abscond:  "Your horse has
> absquatulated!" (Robert M. Bird) To die.
> => nil
> 
> Stephen

Thank you,

Li
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