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Asked: 2026-05-22T11:57:42+00:00

In a request to YQL (select * from html where url=…) I got the

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In a request to YQL (select * from html where url="...") I got the following response:

callback({
    "query":
        {"count":"1","created":"2011-05-09T23:29:05Z","lang":"en-US"
     }, "results": ["<body>... we\ufffdll call Mr ...</body>"]
}

This is from the YQL console page.
When I type that sequence into firebug (even on YQL’s page) I get:

... we�ll call Mr ...

What am I doing wrong? Is YQL’s site in a bad encoding? Is there some way to convert symbols like this to their ascii equivalent?

BTW this isn’t my site so it’s not like I can change the meta charset on that site

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  1. Editorial Team

    Maybe the answers to these might help get a better answer:

    1. What character are you expecting at that place?
    2. Can you post the URL that you’re scraping?
    3. Is that the character on that page also or is it getting mangled when picked up by YQL?

    Update

    You might want to check out the charset option in the where clause of your YQL query – I’m not entirely sure what it does but it looks like it forces the YQL engine to use the specified charset when parsing the page. Perhaps setting it to UTF-8 will solve your problem.

    For example,

    select * from html where url = 'http://google.com' and charset='utf-8'
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