From: Jim Hranicky <jfh@...>
Date: 2012-05-03T06:41:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Psych dumping in binary

On 05/02/2012 05:10 PM, Jeremy Kemper wrote:

> If you can, try US-ASCII encoding for 7-bit clean ASCII. Psych will
> dump that as you expect.

Well, I'd rather avoid this when reading and parsing syslog
lines: 

  ruby -Eus-ascii -e 'x = "foo"; x.force_encoding("US-ASCII"); puts x.encoding; x += "\xf0\xff";   x.force_encoding("US-ASCII"); puts x.match(/foo/); puts x' | m
  -e:1:in `match': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError)
          from -e:1:in `match'
          from -e:1:in `<main>'
  US-ASCII

You never know what'll be in there, and I'd rather not have to run 
force_encoding on every processed line. 

If there's a better way to handle strings with naughty characters
I'd be grateful for pointers. 

-- 
Jim Hranicky
IT Security Engineer
Office of Information Security and Compliance
University of Florida