From: Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...>
Date: 2007-07-07T01:31:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in CGI::unescapeHTML?

Paul Battley wrote the following on 05.07.2007 23:10 :
>
> If I understand HTML correctly, it is pretty much a bug, although it's
> perhaps more of a reflection of Ruby's limited encoding support (which
> has already been well discussed on this list!).
>

I tend to agree. I just fixed a bug in one of my apps where I blindly 
used CGI.unescapeHTML which, as the original poster mentionned, 
generates output that isn't welcomed by a system configured to use UTF-8 
all the way, especially the database (PostgreSQL in my case)...

Thanks for htmlentities, it saved my day.

Lionel