On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Matt Alexander wrote:

> Matt Alexander said:
> > Does anyone know how I would take an HTML unicode character and convert=
 it
> > to the actual unicode character in a text file using Perl?  For example=
,
> > let's say I have López.  I'd like the ó to be converted to th=
e
> > character with the o and the accent over it and saved to a plain text
> > file.

#!/usr/bin/perl
while ($line=3D<>) {
  $line =3D~ s/(&#)([0-9]+)(;)/ chr($2) /eg;
  print $line;
}


(I use the opposite for that to encode for webpages.)

> I figured it out.  Browsers use decimal for unicode.  So I would convert
> 243 in decimal to F3 in hex and then I can print the character:
>
> perl -e 'print "\x{F3}\n"

$ echo 'L&#243;pez' |  ~/scripts/iso-to-ascii
L=F3pez



   Jeremy C. Reed
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