From: Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Date: 2008-10-10T04:51:11+09:00
Subject: Re: how to remove strange characters

Nit Khair wrote:
> Here's a quick hack I used recently. It was messing my display on 
> ncurses, and I did not need the characters.
> 
> dataitem.gsub!(/[^[:space:][:print:]]/,'')
> 
> I got this while googling, iirc, its used somewhere in ROR.

It works on scenario where iconv doesn't work. Good job!!!

Li

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