From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2006-12-27T03:40:56+09:00
Subject: Re: &#8230; unencoding troubles with FeedTools

Robert Jones wrote:
> I can't seem to unencode them.  Stuff like &apos;
> is ok- FeedTools::HtmlHelper.unescape_entities deals fine with them, but
> these frickin &#8230; things are driving me nuts.
> 
> Anyone able to give me an early Christmas present by helping me out?

irb(main):005:0> "n &#8230;".gsub %r{&#(\d+);} do
irb(main):006:1*   [Integer($1)].pack('U*')
irb(main):007:1> end
=> "n \342\200\246"
irb(main):008:0> puts "n \342\200\246"
n …
=> nil

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