MacOS – How to do a batch conversion of HTML entities to Hanzi

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I have a huge .txt file which contains lots of HTML entities representing Unicode characters, like this:

哀牢山

In Pinyin, this would read "Ai Lao Shan" or "Ai1 Lao2 Shan1", to be more precise.
I need a tool or command line or Pages/Numbers macro, whatever, which replaces all strings like &#....; in said file into proper Hanzi, which in this case would be:

哀牢山

Any suggestions for a tool or script or program that runs on macOS?

Best Answer

You can install recode via the Terminal with Homebrew:

brew install recode

and then use it to convert HTML to Unicode, like this:

echo '哀牢山' | recode html..utf8

This produces

哀牢山

(inspired by @creving's answer on Stack Overflow)

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