From: "Pablo Q." <paqs140482@...>
Date: 2008-10-09T01:34:54+09:00
Subject: Re: how to remove strange characters

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what do you think doing something like this?

class String
  def remove_nonascii(replacement)
    n=self.split("")
    self.slice!(0..self.size)
    n.each{|b|
      if (b[0].to_i< 32 || b[0].to_i>124) then
        self.concat(replacement)
      elsif
[34,35,37,42,43,44,45,47,60,61,62,63,91,92,93,94,96,123].include?(b[0].to_i)
        self.concat(replacement)
      else
        self.concat(b)
      end
    }
    self.to_s
  end
end

"Fatal injury or ruin:\223Hath some fond lover tic'd thee to
thybane?\224\342\200\246".remove_nonascii('+')

=> "Fatal injury or ruin:+Hath some fond lover tic'd thee to thybane+++++"

how you can see, it made the replacement with char '+'.


2008/10/8 Li Chen <chen_li3@yahoo.com>

> Hi Stephen and others,
>
> Iconv only works for some characters. It doesn't work for the following
> scripts.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Li
>
>
> C:\Users\Alex>irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'iconv'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0>  string1="Fatal injury or ruin:\223Hath some fond lover
> tic'd thee to thy bane?\224
> \342\200\246"
> => "Fatal injury or ruin:\223Hath some fond lover tic'd thee to thy
> bane?\224\342\200\246"
> irb(main):003:0>  puts
> Iconv.iconv('ASCII//TRANSLIT','utf-8',string1).to_s
> Iconv::IllegalSequence: "\223Hath some fond "...
>        from (irb):3:in `iconv'
>        from (irb):3
> irb(main):004:0>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>


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Pablo Q.

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