ruby `encode': "\xC3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError)

Hannibal episodes in tvdb have weird characters in them. For example: Œuf So ruby spits out: ./manifesto.rb:19:in `encode': "\xC3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError) from ./manifesto.rb:19:in `to_json' from ./manifesto.rb:19:in `<main>' Line 19 is: puts @tree.to_json Is there a way to deal with these non utf characters? I'd rather not replace them, but convert them? Or i

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: encode