How to convert the HTML entities into UTF-8 character set, in ruby 1.8.7

[Nila]

Hi,

Is there away to convert the HTML entities into UTF-8 character set, in ruby 1.8.7? 

(For example, if we consider "ö", convert the entity number "ö" into "\303\266". Or at least converting the html entity to the character "ö" )

Thank you

[Matt Jones]

CGI.unescapeHTML may do what you're looking for.

--Matt Jones 

[Walter Lee Davis]

Here's what I do:

coder = HTMLEntities.new
foo = coder.decode(foo)

I tried CGI.unescapeHTML and hit some problems, but that might have been my source talking, since there were also custom entities declared in XML.

Walter

[Nila]

Thanks alot for the responses. Could do it using HTMLEntities.