Convert special characters from HTML to utf-8 or iso-8859-1

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Dear all,

is there a gem available that will transform things like "—" into a long dash, "'" into an apostrophe and so on ?
I think someone posted about this about a week ago, but I can't absolutely find it anymore.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Axel

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Datum: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 05:05:15 +0900
Von: "Axel Etzold" <AEtzold@gmx.de>
An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Betreff: Convert special characters from HTML to utf-8 or iso-8859-1

Dear all,

is there a gem available that will transform things like "&#151;" into a
long dash, "&#39;" into an apostrophe and so on ?
I think someone posted about this about a week ago, but I can't absolutely
find it anymore.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Axel

Found it: htmlentities.

Best regards,

Axel

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