Equivalent of Iconv.conv(“UTF-8//IGNORE”,…) in Ruby 1.9.X?

Question

I\'m reading data from a remote source, and occassionally get some characters in another encoding. They\'re not important.

I\'d like to get get a \"best guess\" utf-8 st

Answer 1

This works great for me:

"String".encode("UTF-8", :invalid => :replace, :undef => :replace, :replace => "").force_encoding('UTF-8')