Replace html predefined character entities by utf-8
hxunent [\| -b \|] [\| -f \|] [\| file \|]
The hxunent command reads the file (or standard input) and copies it to standard output with &-entities by their equivalent character (encoded as UTF-8). E.g., " is replaced by " and < is replaced by <.
The following options are supported:
-b
The five builtin entities of XML (< > " ' &) are not replaced but copied unchanged. This is necessary if the output has to be valid XML or SGML.
-f
This option changes how unknown entities or lone ampersands are handled. Normally they are copied unchanged, but this option tries to "fix" them by replacing ampersands by &. Often such stray ampersands are the result of copy and paste of URLs into a document and then this option indeed fixes them and makes the document valid.
The program's exit value is 0 if all went well, otherwise:
1
The input couldn't be read (file not found, file not readable...)
2
Wrong command line arguments.
asc2xml(1), xml2asc(1), UTF-8 (RFC 2279)
The program assumes entities are as defined by HTML. It doesn't read a document's DTD to find the actual definitions in use in a document. With -f, it will even remove all entities that are not HTML entities.