puffy/ruby_encode_utf8

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The pretty way to break away of invalid utf-8 byte sequence error in ruby 1.9 # code got from http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/42664369166/fight-back-utf-8-invalid-byte-sequences

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ruby_encode_utf8

	def replace_name(body, name)
	body
	.encode('UTF-8', 'binary', invalid: :replace, undef: :replace, replace: '')
	.gsub(/joel/, name)
	end

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