Nokogiri, open-uri, and Unicode Characters

Question

I\'m using Nokogiri and open-uri to grab the contents of the title tag on a webpage, but am having trouble with accented characters. What\'s the best way to deal with these

Answer 1

Just to add a cross-reference, this SO page gives some related information:

How to make Nokogiri transparently return un/encoded Html entities untouched?