Convert « Encoding « HTML CSS Q&A

1. Is there anything to convert HTML special characters in files to normal characters?    stackoverflow.com

I have some source code files which came to me by an HTML output, so they're pretty unusable. I have things like this:

%include "macros.mac"

%include "macros.mac"

2. How to tell Nokogiri when parsing a document not to convert it a different encoding (in my case not to convert &paund; to to anything else)    stackoverflow.com

Question: how to tell Nokogiri when parsing a document not to convert it a different encoding (in my case not to convert &paund; to to anything else)

3. convert encoding via iconv linux    stackoverflow.com

I used to convert encoding via iconv but today i stopped by something new to me
I made a testcase to make my question clear : the goal is convert الحلقة الثالثة ...