From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2008-09-08T03:31:38+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI unescapeHTML to escape code '&# 8211;'


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> Datum: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 01:45:44 +0900
> Von: Shashank Agarwal <shashank_hi@yahoo.com>
> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Betreff: CGI unescapeHTML to escape code \'&# 8211;\'

> I'm reading an XML file that has the html codes for hyphens and stuff
> like that. I tried escaping hyphen's html code, which is '&# 8211;'
> (space added to avoid interpretation) with the CGI::unescapeHTML
> function. But it did not escape it. Is there a way to escape such codes?
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Dear Shashank,

have a look at htmlentites (http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/).
Maybe you can re-escape its results using CGI.escape, if that's needed.

Best regards,

Axel 
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