function to convert html encoded chars & etc

function to convert html encoded chars & etc

[Xah]

is there a function that change a string of all html encoded chars
like < > etc to their original character?

Also, am interested in a function to do reverse.

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another question instead of posting another thread...

is there a function that add or take away a level of the conventional
quoting in email replying? i.e. adding or taking away those line
prefix " > ". (am tired of manually calling rectangle-* commands)

Thanks.

  Xah
  xah@xahlee.org
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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Re: function to convert html encoded chars & etc

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Xah,

On Wed, 7 May 2008 03:56:53 -0700 (PDT) Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:

> is there a function that add or take away a level of the conventional
> quoting in email replying? i.e. adding or taking away those line
> prefix " > ". (am tired of manually calling rectangle-* commands)

M-x uncomment-region (when in Message mode) would do the trick.

Best wishes,
Mario

Re: function to convert html encoded chars & etc

[Kevin Rodgers]

Xah wrote:
> is there a function that change a string of all html encoded chars
> like < > etc to their original character?

Try html2text-substitute (controlled by html2text-replace-list) or
xml-substitute-special (controlled by xml-entity-alist).

> Also, am interested in a function to do reverse.

Try url-insert-entities-in-string or xml-parse-region (also controlled
by xml-entity-list).

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA