From: Scott Gonyea <scott@...>
Date: 2010-10-12T08:12:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.2: How to sanitize text with invalid characters?

Will this work?

blah1 = "#{0xFF.chr} abcde"
blah2 = blah.split(/[^[:print:]]/).join

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Andreas S. <x-ruby-lang@andreas-s.net> wrote:
> 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
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