Re: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode

[Miles Bader]

"B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:
> Does any of you know whether nxhtml has the capability to convert
> sequences like this:
>
> &#1513;&#1473;&#1463;&#1500;&#1493;&#1465;&#1501;.
> (shalom in Hebrew)

The following should work:

   (defun expand-html-encoded-chars (start end)
     (interactive "r")
     (save-excursion
       (goto-char start)
       (while (re-search-forward "&#\\([0-9]+\\);" end t)
         (replace-match 
          (char-to-string
           (decode-char 'ucs (string-to-number (match-string 1))) )
          t t))))

-Miles

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