i tried that but it didn't work for me. what did was to explicitly
set the encoding property in nokogiri
url = 'http://www.snowbird.com/ski_board/snowreport.php'
page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))
page.encoding = 'utf-8'
worked great after that!
thx,
Max
On Nov 27, 4:54 am, Everaldo Gomes <everaldo.go...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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