I want html number entities like ę and want to convert it to real character. I have emails mostly from linkedin that look like this:
chciałabym zapytać, czy rozważa Pan takze
udział w nowych projektach w Warszawie ? Obecnie poszukujemy
specjalisty javascript/architekta z bardzo dobrą
znajomością Angular.js do projektu, który dotyczy
systemu, służącego do monitorowania i
zarządzania flotą pojazdów. Zespół, do
którego poszukujemy
I'm using clawsmail, switching to html don't convert it to text, I've try to copy and use
xclip -o -sel clip | html2text | less
but it didn't convert the entities. Is there a way to have that text using command line tools?
The only way I can think of is to use data:text/html,<PASTE THE EMAIL>
and open it in a browser, but would prefer the command line.
Best Answer
With Free
recode
(formerly known as GNUrecode
):If you don't have
recode
orHTML::Entities
and only need to decode&#x<hex>;
entities, you could do it by hand with: