From: Marek Kis Date: 2011-03-04T05:17:51+09:00 Subject: slice! invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 Hello I am started my adventures with Ruby I want to write simple parser: if RUBY_VERSION =~ /1.9/ Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8 Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8 end url = URI.parse('example url') response = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) do |http| http.get(url.path) end main_page = response.body links = main_page.slice!(/.+<\/table>/) I am getting error: parser.rb:17:in `slice!': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError) Could somebody explain me how to resolve this problem? All solutions that I found doesn't work for me. Regards -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.