Delete non-UTF characters from a string in Ruby?

Question

How do I delete non-UTF8 characters from a ruby string? I have a string that has for example \"xC2\" in it. I want to remove that char from the string so that it becomes a valid

Answer 1

You text have ASCII-8BIT encoding, instead you should use this:

String.delete!("^\u{0000}-\u{007F}"); 

It will serve the same purpose.