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XML2ASC(1) HTML-XML-utils XML2ASC(1) NAME xml2asc - convert UTF-8 to &#nnn; entities SYNOPSIS xml2asc DESCRIPTION Reads an UTF-8 encoded text from standard input and writes to standard out- put, converting all non-ASCII characters to &#nnn; entities, so that the result is ASCII-encoded. One example use is to convert ISO-8859-1 to ASCII with &#nnn; entities, by first running asc2xml to convert ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and then pipe the re- sult into xml2asc to convert to ASCII with &#nnn; entities for all accented characters. To test if a file is correct UTF-8, ignore the output and test the exit code, e.g. in Bash: xml2asc <myfile >/dev/null && echo "OK" || echo "Fail" DIAGNOSTICS xml2asc returns with a non-zero exit code if the input was not UTF-8. SEE ALSO asc2xml(1), UTF-8 (RFC 2279) BUGS Doesn't distinguish mark-up from content, so if the input uses non-ASCII characters in XML element names, they will be output with numerical enti- ties in them, which is not legal in XML. 7.x 10 Jul 2011 XML2ASC(1)
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