Re: Turning HTML character references into something readable?

[Karl Eichwalder]

Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de> writes:

> Actually that literal seems to be in some JIS encoding on my side,
> while &#1071; indicates Unicode.

Gnus decided to turn it into JIS; initially it was Unicode/UTF-8.

>   (char-to-string (decode-char 'ucs 1071))

Yes, this is a good hint!

> If you want to get this into an interactive command, you'd need some
> more coding.  Or maybe PSGML or some other SGML/HTML/XML mode may have
> that functionality already.

In this case I cannot use PSGML because de.wikipedia.org is based on a
free style markup language...

>> On the command line recode can do the trick:
>> 
>>    echo "&#1071;" | recode html..utf-8
>
> You can use shell-command-on-region (M-|) to use "recode html..utf-8"
> directly.

I completely forgot about this possibility.  But now it turns out,
"recode html..utf-8" is too ambitious; if the file already contains
umlaut characters they will be encoded twice:

    echo "Danke schön &#1070;&#1071;" | recode html..utf-8
    Danke schön ��

I must find a way to tell recode to leave "Danke schön" untouched.

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