String#encode not fixing “invalid byte sequence in UTF-8” error

Question

I know there are multiple similar questions about this error, and I\'ve tried many of them without luck. The problem I\'m having involves the byte \\xA1 and is

Answer 1

Maybe you are running this code in IRB. I have had a lot of encoding issues with IRB. In this case, try saving this code as a .rb file and run the code from the command line.