title: Removing Junk Characters from Ruby String
body: <p>I am trying to clean up a string that I get from a website using mechanize</p>
  
  <p>here is an except from the string with the junk characters</p>
  
  <pre><code>"Mountain&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;ΓÇÄ1hr&amp;nbsp;39minΓÇÄΓÇÄ - Rated&amp;nbsp;PGΓÇÄΓÇÄ - Action/Adventure/Science&amp;nbsp;fictionΓÇÄΓÇÄ - EnglishΓÇÄ - &lt;a href="
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  <p>Does any one know where they characters come from and how I can replace them with spaces? How does ruby handle the encoding of characters?</p>