Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de> writes:

> The recode tool probably assumes that HTML text is in iso-8859-1
> encoding, while your file seems to be UTF-8 already.

Probably.  Reading the recode manual I came up with this command line
solution:

    echo "Danke sch.ANvn &#1070;&#1071;" \
      | recode -d ..html | recode html..utf-8
    =>
    Danke sch.ANvn $B'@'A(B

Writing a proper Emacs command will be the next step :)

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