Using sanitizer to remove bad UTF-8

Asked Jul 27 '16 at 15:10

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I have written a small api in ruby on rails and I am getting some data from a site but i have a problem. Instead of getting "Kahlúa" I am getting "Kahlúa" . I have tried using a sanitizer but i cant figure out how to do it :/

This is my code :

<% full_sanitizer= Rails::Html::FullSanitizer.new %>
<%= full_sanitizer.sanitize( link_to(course["title"], course["f2f_url"])) %>

I was thinking this is removen "ú" but it is only removing the link ;/ Can someone help me?

If you give me a MINUS pls comment and tell me what I did wrong so I can improve. Thanks :)

edited Jul 27 '16 at 15:20

asked Jul 27 '16 at 15:10

kemis

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poz! what does "getting data from a site" mean? what does your original string contain? the question is not clear. – Mladen Jablanović Jul 27 '16 at 15:18
Hi, I am getting data using an API, I linked it now in the question :) – kemis Jul 27 '16 at 15:21
What result do you expect? What happens instead? – Sergio Tulentsev Jul 27 '16 at 15:22
I want to get "Kahlúa" but instead I am getting "Kahlúa" :/ – kemis Jul 27 '16 at 15:24
What you need is not sanitization, but rather HTML decoding. Take look at the other question. I believe, in your case, you will have to use `htmlentities` or similar library, as `CGI` does not cover these Unicode characters. – Mladen Jablanović Jul 27 '16 at 15:30
Thank you, Hvala :) I will try – kemis Jul 27 '16 at 15:30

Using sanitizer to remove bad UTF-8

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