Convert non-breaking spaces to spaces in Ruby
- by CoolAJ86
I have cases where user-entered data from an html textarea or input is sometimes sent with \u00a0 (non-breaking spaces) instead of spaces when encoded as utf-8 json.
I believe that to be a bug in Firefox, as I know that the user isn't intentionally putting in non-breaking spaces instead of spaces.
There are also two bugs in Ruby, one of which can be used to combat the other.
For whatever reason
\s
doesn't match
\u00a0
However
[^[:print:]]
(which definitely should not match) and
\xC2\xA0
both will match, but I consider those to be less-than-ideal ways to deal with the issue.
Are there other recommendations for getting around this issue?
