title: Ruby: Replacing bullets pasted from MS Word
body: <p>I need to remove bullet symbols from text pasted from MS Word, but I can't figure out what to match on.</p>
  
  <p>When printed to STDOUT the symbol displays as â¢
  The ascii codes for these characters are 194 and 162.
  The ascii code for • symbols is 149</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions how to proceed either in JavaScript or Ruby code?</p>