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Created October 28, 2012 16:25
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Generating non-UTF-8 strings in ruby for testing
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utf_8.rb
# It's sort of difficult to make a non-UTF-8 string in
# ruby that contains characters that aren't in UTF-8.
# Here's how I did it.
# 0x89 isn't allowed in UTF-8
bad_chars = [0x89].pack("c*").force_encoding("ISO-8859-1")
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