17 lines
432 B
Ruby
17 lines
432 B
Ruby
class String
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# A poor man's scrub, Ruby 2.1 has a much better implementation, but this will do
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unless method_defined? :scrub
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def scrub(replace_char = nil)
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str = dup.force_encoding("utf-8")
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unless str.valid_encoding?
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# work around bust string with a double conversion
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str.encode!("utf-16", "utf-8", invalid: :replace)
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str.encode!("utf-8", "utf-16")
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end
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str
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end
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end
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end
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