Re: Turning HTML character references into something readable?

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Karl,


Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net> writes:
>     echo "Danke schön &#1070;&#1071;" | recode html..utf-8
>     Danke schön ��
> 
> I must find a way to tell recode to leave "Danke schön" untouched.

The recode tool probably assumes that HTML text is in iso-8859-1
encoding, while your file seems to be UTF-8 already.  Or the text is
passed to the tool as UTF-8 by Emacs because of the
process-coding-system used (see process-coding-system-alist and it's
docs).


so long, benny