From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2011-03-30T11:16:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding issues when parsing HTML in 1.9

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:45 PM, ctdev <ctdev421@gmail.com> wrote:
> However now I'm trying to do simple string substitution with gsub()
> and am getting the error:
>
>  invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
>
> An example of where this is bombing is the word "PROT\xC9GÉ" as parsed
> by Nokogiri.

What is the encoding of your input HTML file?