From: "Andreas S." Date: 2010-10-12T08:03:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.2: How to sanitize text with invalid characters? Scott Gonyea wrote in post #949026: > Code / Data samples? Trivial example: "#{0xFF.chr} abcde".force_encoding("utf-8").gsub(/a/,'') ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.