unescapeHTML

[Santi]

Hi,

I need to decode escaped html entities but the following code is not
working:

--
require 'cgi'
print CGI.unescapeHTML('&eacute')
--

It prints "&eacute" insted of the expected e with the acute.

What's wrong?

Thank you.

 

[ChrisH]

Looking at the source, it doesn't seem to expect that particular code.
Infact it only handles <, >, " and &.

 

[Dave Burt]

Hi,

I need to decode escaped html entities but the following code is not
working:

--
require 'cgi'
print CGI.unescapeHTML('&eacute')
--

It prints "&eacute" insted of the expected e with the acute.

What's wrong?

CGI.unescapeHTML is designed to be the inverse of CGI.escapeHTML, which
is only designed to escape characters that are valid 7-bit ASCII but not
valid CDATA in HTML.

What do you want this for? You might have to build your own lookup table
to convert these into the character encoding you desire.

Cheers,
Dave