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Convert Unicode Characters To HTML Entities In Ruby

01.16.2006
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def entities( str )
  converted = []
  str.split(//).collect { |c| converted << ( c[0] > 127 ? "&##{c[0]};" : c ) }
  converted.join('')
end

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Snippets Manager replied on Mon, 2012/05/07 - 2:18pm

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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