HTML, Unicode, and Perl

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Author: Matt Alexander
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Subject: HTML, Unicode, and Perl
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 the
> character with the o and the accent over it and saved to a plain text
> file.
> Thanks,
> ~M


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"