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[Julian Field]

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Denis Beauchemin wrote:

> Rabellino Sergio wrote:
>
>> Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:05:20 +0100, Julian Field
>>> <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> How is MailScanner going to know that %E9 is the same as &eacute; ?
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know but since these are no longer illegal there has to be a 
>>> way to
>>> not treat them as such.
>>>
>>> Denis
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> I found this table (grabbed from w3c) that can be used to map the 
>> binary code to HTML code.
>>
>> http://htmlcodetutorial.com/characterentities_famsupp_69.html
>>
>> The bad thing is that this table must be hardcoded into MS, I think.
>>
>> Bye.
>>
>> PS. I've checked the table and E9 (=233) map to acute;
>
>
> Julian,
>
> I have found this Perl module: URI::Escape which has functions to 
> encode/decode %nn characters.  At the end of the readme it also says:
> The module can also export the |%escapes| hash, which contains the 
> mapping from all 256 bytes to the corresponding escape codes. Lookup 
> in this hash is faster than evaluating |sprintf("%%%02X", ord($byte))| 
> each time.
>
> Now, I'll try to find some other module that can convert the 
> international character into &eacute;...

I have just hardcoded in the table that was in the htmlcodetutorial link 
above. Works nicely.

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