converting html with \xa9 to Markdown and using iconv?

[andrew at shedside.com]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:52:01 -0500 (CDT), Jeremy C. Reed wrote:


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


If you're familiar with XSLT, another option is:

	http://www.lowerelement.com/Geekery/XML/XHTML-to-Markdown.html

(You can use Perl's XML::LibXML and XML::LibXSLT to parse your HTML as 
XHTML and then transform it using the above stylesheet, UTF8 intact, 
into Markdown).

Cheers,
Andrew.