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$ irb
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > string = "Jürgen Müller"
=> "Jürgen Müller"
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > string.force_encoding("BINARY").encode("UTF-8", :invalid => :replace, :replace => "")
Encoding::UndefinedConversionError: "\xC3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8
from (irb):2:in `encode'
from (irb):2
from /Users/norman/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.1-p378/bin/irb:17:in `<main>'
ruby-1.9.1-p378 >
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