converting character encodings

Note

• foo and bar represent the character encodings of the input and output files, respectively.
• foo.bar and bar.baz represent the filenames of the input and output files, respectively.

In Linux, use iconv -f foo -t bar foo.bar > bar.baz.

converting an HTML character entity reference to a UTF-8 character

Note

• foo.bar represents the filename of an input file containing an HTML character entity reference.
• bar.baz represents the filename of an output file containing an HTML character entity reference converted to a UTF-8 character.

Use <foo.bar recode html..utf8 > bar.baz

prior work

• The method of converting an HTML character entity reference to a UTF-8 character was introduced to me by an answer on Stack Overflow by ceving.
• The method of converting character encodings with iconv was introduced to me by an answer on Stack Overflow by Troels Arvin.

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