HTML Entities to UTF-8 Converter

I’ve written a little RISCOS app to do this.

You might well wonder why bother? HTML5 likes UTF-8. It’s perfectly good at handling HTML entities too, but I find it easier to edit files I can read…on editors (on the other platform) that display UTF-8…on the other hand, whatever platform I’m using, it’s easier to type ą than to remember (or look up) some arcane code for it. Even ’ or – are easier to type than however else one gets them.

Sometime I might write another app to do the converse – after all, in Zap on the Pi č is easier to read than the UTF-8 equivalent…

http://clive.semmens.org.uk/RISCOS/XP1EntFix.html

Updated: a few more HTML entities it knows about. Also, if there are any entities in your HTML file that it doesn’t recognize, it now makes a log file listing them. They’re easy enough to add in DATA statements in the program.

The promised app to do the converse is now ready too, and I’ve updated XP1EntFix again for a couple more characters, and to remove &gcedil;, which is listed in the HTML spec and whose UTF-8 works, as does ģ, but &gcedil; doesn’t, on NetSurf nor on FireFox.

http://clive.semmens.org.uk/RISCOS/XP1EntFix.html gives you both.