Re: Unicode to symbol conversion

Sandip Bhattacharya <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Sep 2004 23:10:32 +0530

Newsgroups	gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi.devel
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On Thursday 09 Sep 2004 6:20 pm, Gurpreet Sachdeva wrote:
> I need to replace Unicodes in an HTML/XML File to the appropriat symbols. I
> tried to use Encode qw/encode decode/; but no success.
>
> I have got an XML file where codes like &#169; &#170; &#171; etc are given.
> I want to convert them to © ª « respectively. Any pointer to a good
> document or any suggestion is most welcome.
>

Are you trying to make it work only under Perl? PHP has a number of native 
functions to convert htmlentities to and from their codes. The function 
htmlentities converts TO and html_entity_decode() converts FROM HTML entities 
to their character equivalent.

- Sandip

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