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Malet/to_utf8.rb

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Prevent invalid UTF-8 byte sequences for Ruby 2.0 / 2.1 (1.9 untested)
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to_utf8.rb
class String
REPLACE_INVALID_WITH = '�'
def to_utf8
self.encode('utf-8', invalid: :replace, undef: :replace, replace: REPLACE_INVALID_WITH).
chars.map{ |i| i.valid_encoding? ? i : REPLACE_INVALID_WITH }.join
end
end
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