How can I convert the following deprecated ruby 1.8 code into ruby 1.9 code?
invalid_chars_stripper = Iconv.new('UTF-8//IGNORE', 'UTF-8')
invalid_chars_stripper.iconv(body + ' ')[0..-2]
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Bogdan Gusiev
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What does it currently do in 1.9? What do you need it to do? – Mark Thomas Feb 22 '12 at 12:53
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It do what it need to do in ruby 1.9: rip out all invalid UTF-8 characters from a string. But with deprecation warning. – Bogdan Gusiev Feb 22 '12 at 15:07
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I found this works well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5712096/open-uri-returning-ascii-8bit-from-webpage-encoded-in-iso-8859/14719225#14719225 – Moriarty Feb 06 '13 at 05:33
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This should work:
bad_str = "po#{0xFF.chr}ta#{0xFAFAFA.chr}to" #=> "po?ta?to"
clean_str = bad_str.encode("UTF-8", {:replace=>""}) #=> "potato"
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Doesn't work for me: ruby-1.9.3-p0 :033 > bad_str = "pota\xA0to" => "pota\xA0to" ruby-1.9.3-p0 :034 > puts bad_str pota�to => nil ruby-1.9.3-p0 :035 > clean_str = bad_str.encode("UTF-8", {:replace=>""}) => "pota\xA0to" – Bogdan Gusiev Mar 12 '12 at 15:31