decode Numeric Character References to unicode

[Ben Finney]

7stud <bbxx789_05ss at yahoo.com> writes:

> For instance, an 'o' with umlaut can be represented in three
> different ways:
> 
> '&' followed by 'ouml;'
> '&' followed by '#246;'
> '&' followed by '#xf6;'

The fourth way, of course, is to simply have 'ö' appear directly as a
character in the document, and set the correct character encoding.
(Hint: UTF-8 is an excellent choice for "the correct character
encoding", if you get to choose.)

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