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Jellby · 03-16-2012, 12:36 PM

Well, xml2asc in my box doesn't seem to do what you apparently use it for:

Reads an UTF-8 encoded text from standard input and writes to standard output, converting all non-ASCII characters to &#nnn; entities, so that the result is ASCII-encoded.

Also, consider what to do with an input such as:

Code:

Let a &lt; &epsilon; &gt; b

Do you get <, ε, and > in the character list?

03-16-2012, 12:36 PM	#10
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,516 Karma: 18512745 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	Well, xml2asc in my box doesn't seem to do what you apparently use it for: Reads an UTF-8 encoded text from standard input and writes to standard output, converting all non-ASCII characters to &#nnn; entities, so that the result is ASCII-encoded. Also, consider what to do with an input such as: Code: Let a < ε > b Do you get <, ε, and > in the character list?