On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:25 AM, ctdev <ctdev421 / gmail.com> wrote:
> I also tried the following on a test string:
>
>  ¨Â®åîãïä娢ÕÔÆ­¸¢¬ ºéîöáìéä ½¾ ºòåðìáãåºõîäåæ ½¾ºòåðìáãåºòåðìáãå
> => "?")
>
> But it doesn't seem to replace the invalid character(s)

Could that be an optimization in encode: since the string is already
thought to be UTF-8, just return it?

> s = "PROT\xC9G=> "PROT\xC9G\u00C9"
> s.encode("UTF-8", :invalid => :replace, :undef =>:replace, :replace => "?")
=> "PROT\xC9G\u00C9"

> s.
  encode('ISO8859-9', :invalid => :replace, :undef =>:replace, :replace3D> "#").
  encode("UTF-8", :invalid => :replace, :undef =>:replace, :replace => "?")
=> "PROT#G\u00C9"