From: Wayne Brissette <wbrisett@...>
Date: 2013-01-08T20:37:41+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub with multibyte characters

I fixed it! 

I found an interesting trick on stack-overflow. 

What I ended up doing was 

mystr.force_encoding("BINARY").gsub!(0x92.chr, "'")

I did have to open the problem file in a hex editor to verify the hex character that was causing issues, but forcing the encoding in the MRI seemed to do the trick. 

I wonder why macruby didn't have this sort of issue though. 

Wayne