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Thanks. I'm trying to get cURL to decode, but it doesn't seem to natively handle. Now I'm digging into .../escape.c I feel like I must be missing something...

• tlb 12y ago
  You can't simply decode each character without losing information. For example, &#x3c; means a literal < character to be shown on the page, as opposed to a < in the stream which starts an HTML tag. If you're just planning on displaying the text in a browser, no decoding is needed. If you want to parse the text to do some sort of textual analysis, an HTML parser library might be best.
  • bch 12y ago
    I understand what you're talking about re: &#x3c; and '<' -- the json -looks- page (terminal in my case) displayable, barring the &#xhhhh; encoding. cURL has facilities for decoding %20 (for example), but not what we're getting back w/ this json. You've given me an idea though, so back to vi for me. Thx.
    • mh- 12y ago
      not sure if you figured something out already, but just saw your comment and remembered that this exists in PHP: http://us1.php.net/manual/en/function.get-html-translation-table.php http://us1.php.net/manual/en/function.get-html-translation-t... absent another source, you could dump it out for your usage elsewhere. % php -r 'print_r(get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_QUOTES|ENT_HTML5));' or % php -r 'print json_encode(get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_QUOTES|ENT_HTML5));' | jq . edit: just found http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref (but might be harder to parse..)
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