FIX: Normalize non-UTF-8 inputs before tokenization - #10
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Add `normalize_text` helper to `BasicTokenizer` and `OpenAiTokenizer` that converts ASCII-8BIT, Latin-1, and other non-UTF-8 strings to valid UTF-8 before passing them to the underlying tokenizer. Invalid byte sequences are scrubbed with replacement characters. This prevents `EncodingError` crashes in `truncate`, `encode`, `below_limit?`, and `tokenize` when callers pass binary or mixed-encoding strings (common in Rails when reading from external sources). Bumps version to 0.4.2.
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Add
normalize_texthelper toBasicTokenizerandOpenAiTokenizerthat converts ASCII-8BIT, Latin-1, andother non-UTF-8 strings to valid UTF-8 before passing them
to the underlying tokenizer. Invalid byte sequences are
scrubbed with replacement characters.
This prevents
EncodingErrorcrashes intruncate,encode,below_limit?, andtokenizewhen callers pass binary ormixed-encoding strings (common in Rails when reading from
external sources).
Bumps version to 0.4.2.