From: Jack Dempsey <dempsejn@...>
Date: 2002-01-12T12:18:22+09:00
Subject: RE: htmlentities

ahh, ok, i was looking at that but wasn't sure it actually did what i
thought.....thanks!
jack

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Delm�e [mailto:bdelmee@advalvas._ZAPME_.be]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 8:25 PM
To: ruby-talk ML; undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Re: htmlentities


> PHP has this function
> (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php) that I've found
> useful in the past: it can be used to convert text from things like &#160;
> etc into their useful counterparts....i've looked but can't seem to find
> this in any modules....if not, i'd probably write it......anyone know if
it
> exists?
>

This should do:

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/lib_network.html#CGI.unescapeHTML