converting html with \xa9 to Markdown and using iconv?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

The html document various characters like
 	\xa0
©	\xa9  (Copyright symbol)
(and others).

I tried using html2text.py but it didn't like these characters.

Any ideas on how I can use iconv or another tool to convert documents like 
this so I can then convert to Markdown?

I don't want to do manually as I have around 500+ documents.


  Jeremy C. Reed