How to make Nokogiri transparently return un/encoded Html entities untouched?

Question

How can I use Nokogiri with having html entities (like German umlauts) untouched?

I.e.:

# this is fine
node = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment('<p>&ouml;</p>')
node.to_s # => '<p>&ouml;</p>'

# this is not
node = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment('<p>ö</p>')
node.to_s # => '<p>&ouml;</p>'

# this is what I need
node = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment('<p>ö</p>')
node.to_s # => '<p>ö</p>'

I've tried to mess with both PARSE_OPTIONS and :save_with options but could not come up with a way to have Nokogiri just transparently behave like above.

Any pointers?

Answer 1

Already answer in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2524305/contents-of-a-node-in-nokogiri

Answer 2

Ok, my question has been answered by Aaron via twitter/gist: http://twitter.com/tenderlove/status/11489447561