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I get sources from the web and sometimes the encoding of the material is not 100% UTF8 byte sequence valid. I use iconv to silently ignore these sequences to get a cleaned string. <pre><code>@iconv = Iconv.new('UTF-8//IGNORE', 'UTF-8') valid_string = @iconv.iconv(untrusted_string) </code></pre> However now the iconv has been deprecated, I see its deprecation warning a lot. iconv will be deprecated in the future, use String#encode I tried the converting it, using <code>String#encode</code>'s <code>:invalid</code> and <code>:replace</code> options, but it seems not to be working (i.e. the incorrect byte sequence has not been removed). What is the correct way to use String#encode for this?
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How to change deprecated iconv to String#encode for invalid UTF8 correction
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1. COI think what you're trying is very dangerous. Text encoding is like pregnancy: either you have UTF8 or you don't. You can't just have a "bit" of UTF8. If there's an error, you *have* to abort. Otherwise your converter may be susceptible to attacks with maliciously prepared strings.
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2. COI am writing a crawler and there will be a page out there being a bit invalid. So cleaning the bytes is all I can do.
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