From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-07-27T07:54:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting escaped html to utf-8

Chris Worrall wrote:
> Well, after some more googling, I found a solution. If anyone was 
> curious --
> 
> require 'cgi'
> require 'iconv'
> 
> n = "&#xe1;"
> n = CGI.unescapeHTML(n)
> n = Iconv.conv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", n)

I'm surprised no one mentioned it but you could use

require "rubygems"
require "htmlentities"
puts HTMLEntities.decode_entities("&#x100; &#x108; &#x10E;")
=> Ā Ĉ Ď

Daniel