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wireframe/fix_invalid_utf8_chars.rb

Created July 20, 2011 17:45
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fix_invalid_utf8_chars.rb
# add helper methods
class String
def inspect_bytes
index = 0
self.each_byte do |b|
puts "#{index}: #{b} => #{b.chr}"
index += 1
end
end
def convert_to_utf8
Iconv.conv('utf8', 'latin1', self)
end
end
# fix invalid data
record = Model.find bad_id
record.update_attribute :field, m.field.convert_to_utf8
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