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Ruby 1.9 strip not removing whitespace

Im doing some screen scraping and im getting back a string that appears to end with whitespace but neither string.strip or strip.gsub(/\s/u, '') removes the character.

Im guessing it's a character encoding issue. Any suggestions?

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