Re: convert text to html

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 07:43:22AM +0300, Nikolay Pavlov wrote:
> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:43:22 +0300
> From: Nikolay Pavlov <zyx.vim@gmail.com>
> To: "vim_use@googlegroups.com" <vim_use@googlegroups.com>
> Cc: vim@vim.org
> Subject: Re: convert text to html
>
> 2015-03-10 1:02 GMT+03:00 Gerard ROBIN <g.robin3@free.fr>:
> > Hello,
> > to convert file.txt to file.html I use the command:
> >
> > :source $VIMRUNTIME/snytax/2html.vim
> >
> > it works fine but is it possible to edit a config file to the French
> > accented characters are taken into account ?
> >
> > i.e. é -> &eacute; è -> &eagrave; etc ....
>
> What's the point in doing this? AFAIR TOhtml converts file to
> &encoding encoding which should support these characters (otherwise
> there is no way for anybody to get them from Vim) and browsers are
> fine with displaying the resulting file as long as server supplies no
> (there is appropriate <meta> tag in the resulting HTML) or correct
> headers.
>
> Also I doubt very much anybody will bother with converting
> specifically to &eacute;, &eagrave;: too much special HTML entities
> exist, supporting &#N; is much easier. But you may always do
> post-processing of the file to achieve the needed result.

Thanks for your reply.
This is not really a problem because a perl one-liner does the trick.
I asked this question because if vim could do the job, why not enjoy it :)

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