Unescaping HTML entities (&#nnnn;) into plain UTF-8

Question

Hello,

We have HTML source files which contain special characters encoded as &#nnnn; like in the word:

außergewöhnlich

We would like to convert them into plain UTF-8:

außergewöhnlich

Is there any small tool to do that?

Answer 1

I suppose ascii2uni tool will perform required conversion.

The size of the tool is about several hundreds kilobytes, it is smaller than lynx, mentioned above.

Answer 2

You can do this with perl, and HTML::Entities if you wish.

echo 'echo 'außergewöhnlich' |
perl -MHTML::Entities -pe'binmode STDOUT, ":utf8"; HTML::Entities::decode_entities($_)'