NAME

hxunent - replace HTML predefined character entities by UTF-8

SYNOPSIS

hxunent [ -b ] [ -f ] [ file ]

DESCRIPTION

The hxunent command reads the file (or standard input) and copies it to standard output with &-entities by their equivalent character (encoded as UTF-8). E.g., " is replaced by " and < is replaced by <.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

-b: The five builtin entities of XML (< > " ' &) are not replaced but copied unchanged. This is necessary if the output has to be valid XML or SGML.
-f: This option changes how unknown entities or lone ampersands are handled. Normally they are copied unchanged, but this option tries to "fix" them by replacing ampersands by &. Often such stray ampersands are the result of copy and paste of URLs into a document and then this option indeed fixes them and makes the document valid.

DIAGNOSTICS

The program's exit value is 0 if all went well, otherwise:

1: The input couldn't be read (file not found, file not readable...)
2: Wrong command line arguments.

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