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How can I convert the .html() to normal text?

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Cheerio only provides $.html() to get the html string. However, all the unicode is converted like 你可能感兴趣. I want to convert these encoded html to normal text like 你可能感兴趣.

How can I do it in Node.js?

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yepninjacommented, Oct 7, 2015

$ = cheerio.load('<ul id="fruits">你可能感兴趣</ul>', {
    decodeEntities: false
});

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ufo22940268commented, Dec 21, 2015

Cool. But what is decodeEntities used for. If set it to false, it will cause parsing slower?

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