otherinbox/muddle — pull request #19 by kerinin (2012-07-19 17:31:06+00:00)
Title: improving HTML special character handling

Nokogiri was stripping named HTML special characters. This commit fixes
that by first converting all special characters to their unicode
equivalents, then encoding them as ASCII using their numeric
representatations.

This approach should ensure that all special characters are displayed
properly in all contexts, regardless of how they're specified in the
source document