fix_encodings.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#:set ts=2


class EndedConverter

	def endings
		[ "\n\r", "\n", "\r" ]
	end

	def initialize(filename)
		@str = File.read(filename)

		encode(@str)

		File.open(filename, "w") {|file| file.write(@str) }
	end

	def encode(str)
	  # See String#encode
  	encoding_options = {
    	:invalid           => :replace,  # Replace invalid byte sequences
    	:undef             => :replace,  # Replace anything not defined in ASCII
    	:replace           => '',        # Use a blank for those replacements
    	:universal_newline => true       # Always break lines with \n
  	}
  	str.encode! Encoding.find('ASCII'), encoding_options
	end
end


if __FILE__ == $0 then

  abort "usage: #{$0} filename1, filename2" if ARGV.size < 1

	ARGV[0].split(",").each do |filename|
		puts "converting #{filename}"
		EndedConverter.new(filename)
	end

end