active support tidy_byte monkey patch

tidy_bytes_monkey_patch.rb

#Given this input string, tidy_bytes explodes
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#This horrible monkey patch fixes it:
module ActiveSupport
  module Multibyte
    module Unicode

      def tidy_byte(byte)
        if byte.is_a? Integer
          if byte < 160
            [database.cp1252[byte] || byte].pack("U").unpack("C*")
          elsif byte < 192
            [194, byte]
          else
            [195, byte - 64]
          end
        else
          byte
        end
      end

    end
  end
end