From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-10-12T05:48:30+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 Character Conversion to HTML

Hi,

In message "UTF-8 Character Conversion to HTML"
    on 02/10/12, Ben Schumacher <ben@blahr.com> writes:

|I'm trying to convert some characters from a text file that are
|double-byte characters from Czech and Polish into HTML entities. I have
|a Ruby script that I'm trying to do this with, but when I'm scanning,
|I'm getting several characters, instead of just one. Can somebody help
|me out here? I imagine I'm not doing this in a terribly efficiently
|anyhow, so an optimizations would be appreciated. Here's the text I'm
|converting:
|
|	Aguarda carregamento da p�ágina....

You have to make sure the encoding of your input.  Is it really in
UTF-8?  If it's not (I suspect it's in ISO-8859-1), you should convert
them to UTF-8 before applying UTF regexp.

							matz.