converting html with \xa9 to Markdown and using iconv?

[John MacFarlane]

You could try html2markdown, which uses iconv, tidy, and pandoc.
It should have no trouble with these characters. It's included in the
pandoc distribution: http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/

JM

+++ Jeremy C. Reed [Mar 22 07 15:52 ]:

> 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

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