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Convert unicode characters to HTML entities in Ruby (See related posts)

def entities( str )
  converted = []
  str.split(//).collect { |c| converted << ( c[0] > 127 ? "&##{c[0]};" : c ) }
  converted.join('')
end
to ruby convert unicode entities by brainpipe on Mon Jan 16 01:57:40 -0500 2006

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dseverin posts on Jan 16, 2006 at 11:41
Your code doesn't work for UTF8 strings, with multibytes per char, e.g. check for:
str = "παÏ?άνοια"
 str.unpack("U*").collect {|s| (s > 127 ? "&##{s};" : s.chr) }.join("")

:)

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