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Updated to libxml-ruby 2.0.5 and fixed code accordingly.
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1 module UTF8
2   ##
3   # Checks that a string is valid UTF-8 by trying to convert it to UTF-8
4   # using the iconv library, which is in the standard library.
5   def self.valid?(str)
6     return true if str.nil?
7     Iconv.conv("UTF-8", "UTF-8", str)
8     return true
9     
10   rescue
11     return false
12   end  
13 end
14