Re: [MacPerl] HTML Character Conversion

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 19.29 -0500 1998.12.19, Brian McNett wrote:
>Cris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Look at HTML::Entities.  That might do it.
>
>Almost, not quite:
>
>> DESCRIPTION
>
>> The decode_entities() routine replaces valid HTML entities found
>> in the string with the corresponding ISO-8859/1 character.
>
>ISO-8859/1 is somewhat at odds with the Mac character set (or
>vice-versa).  However, this could be rather quickly modified to do the
>job.

Yep.  Someone should do a HTML::Entities::Mac module, or make new functions
for the existing module and submit them for inclusion.  IMO.

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