string_cleaner

Just add a method .clean to String which does:

  • convert invalid UTF-8 strings from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8 to fix them

  • recognize euro char from both ISO 8859-15 and Windows-1252

  • replace rn and r with n normalizing end of lines

  • replace control characters and other invisible chars by spaces

Supports only Ruby 2.6+

Install

sudo gem install string_cleaner

Example usage

"\210\004".clean # => " "

Copyright © 2009 Joseph Halter. See LICENSE for details.