From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,6a6d1d8878c29fe3 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.180.82.226 with SMTP id l2mr480307wiy.1.1343124478358; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:07:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.176.67 with SMTP id bd3mr10725022qab.8.1343098758314; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.75.7 with SMTP id y7mr127347pav.12.1343098758183; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Path: q11ni54343613wiw.1!nntp.google.com!volia.net!news2.volia.net!feed-A.news.volia.net!x2no11274535qaj.0!news-out.google.com!a15ni76653891qag.0!nntp.google.com!x2no4980461qaj.0!news-out.google.com!b9ni44197736pbl.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Those annoying HMTL entities from Google Groups Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:13:24 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <85liiiy8ip.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="08f78aef9e4e5d561bf427526f853aae"; logging-data="20472"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+7YnUQ7iyloLSxPgh8VH//vtbKEcqoYfM=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mFJeQeNRlcjRkm/GJZ+8BBnCGpQ= sha1:lN94/p3jVZbAbmAFh9Y2Xp9hWWw= Content-Type: text/plain Date: 2012-07-17T14:13:24+01:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake writes: > Simon Wright writes: > >> You know how, of late, there have been a lot of HTML entities (for >> example, ", ', > for ", ', and > respectively) in postings >> from people who're using Google Groups? Well, I haven't worked out how >> to translate them while reading, > > There's already a package for this; html2text. There usually is! thanks ...