From: Chris Worrall <chris.worrall@...>
Date: 2007-07-26T08:30:31+09:00
Subject: Converting escaped html to utf-8

Hi everyone,

I've looked around online for a solution, but I'm pretty new to ruby
and programming in general, so I feel like I'm hitting a wall here.

I'm retrieving data from Hpricot that I'd like to store in UTF-8, but
I can't find a function to convert hex NCRs like:

&#xe1;

Surely somebody's had to do this in the past that could point me in
the right direction? Thanks!