Hi! I opened the html source from the snowreport.php site and I noted that the strange symbols that you mentioned are htmlencoded characters. The symbol is °
I had a similar problem on last Monday, but I couldn't complete solve it. Try the lib: http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/ or use a regular expression (sub, gsub) to substitute ° for the degrees symbol. Regards, Everaldo On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Max <aa...@xmission.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am scraping a table off of another site and inserting it onto my > site. you can see an example on the initial page at: > http://mthosts.heroku.com. > I'm referring to the green box with the snowbird weather and snowfall > information. > > this box has been scraped off of the snowbird site at: > http://www.snowbird.com/ski_board/snowreport.php > > The problem is that on the snowbird site it has degree symbols (°) but > on my page it shows up as: (�) > > I think it has something to do with the encoding but i'm pretty new to > html etc. and am not sure what i can do to fix this. I've tried > substituting the characters and some other things but haven't had any > success yet. > > any ideas? > > thanks, > > max > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
