Sanitizing Plist UTF8 strings #2482

I like to resolve this issue asap. I would appreciate your feedback on the solution.
I'm willing to do whatever it takes to fix this. Let me know if this is the way to do it.

Thank you, Ladi
For me it was the only way it worked (ie. fixed my issue). I go the solution from those 2 sources:
http://blog.ericrafaloff.com/how-to-break-most-rails-apps.html
http://yehudakatz.com/2010/05/05/ruby-1-9-encodings-a-primer-and-the-solution-for-rails/