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

The best solution to this problem that I've found is this answer to the same question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8711118/363293.

In short: "€foo\xA0".chars.select(&:valid_encoding?).join