Re: converting encoding data easily

On 04/08/14 21:35, glts wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Monday, August 4, 2014 5:30:09 PM UTC+2, Ni Va wrote:
>> I am under a buffer that has utf-8 on encoding or fileencoding vars.
>>
>>
>> I have the following content :
>>
>> &amp
>> True&#xD
>> &quot
>>
>>
>> I would like to replace those known characters by utf-8 correponding chars and available for display and reading.
>
> sounds like you're asking about HTML encoding and decoding.
>
> The unimpaired.vim plugin provides operators '[x' and ']x' to encode and
> decode XML and HTML entities:
>
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1590
>
> With unimpaired.vim you can do 'gg]xG' to decode the entire buffer.
>
> Note that entities look like this: '&xxxx;'. The examples you gave are
> actually ill-formed: they are missing the semicolon.
>
>
Also, in XML (and in XML-derived languages including XUL and IIUC XHTML)
additional entities can be defined by additional user-defined DTDs. They
are also bounded by a header ampersand and a trailer semicolon. I don't
know the details but I suppose they are found somewhere on the W3C site.


Best regards,
Tony.
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