Ruby 2.0.0 String#Match ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
I see this a lot and haven't figured out a graceful solution. If user input contains invalid byte sequences, I need to be able to have it not raise an exception. For example: # @raw_response comes from user and contains invalid UTF-8 # for example: @raw_response = "\xBF" regex.match(@raw_response) ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 Numerous similar questions have been asked and the result appears to be encoding or force encoding the string. Neither of these work for me however: regex.match(@raw_response.force_encoding("UTF-8")) ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 or regex