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I am trying to clean up a string that I get from a website using mechanize
here is an except from the string with the junk characters
"Mountain</b></a><br>ΓÇÄ1hr 39minΓÇÄΓÇÄ - Rated PGΓÇÄΓÇÄ - Action/Adventure/Science fictionΓÇÄΓÇÄ - EnglishΓÇÄ - <a href="
Does any one know where they characters come from and how I can replace them with spaces? How does ruby handle the encoding of characters?
Those characters look like they might be appearing as the result of a UTF-8 encoding problem. I recommend reading Joel’s excellent article The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) which will explain UTF-8 encoding and how to handle it in your code.