Html special characters and the accented characters

BOB KUSPE
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Dear all

Well, it is a headache... What I do for reading accented characters in a textarea, for examples, of a webpage with source code sourece caracters and any metatag regarding the ". ISO".

URL: http://www.filosofia.org/rev/bas/bas20101.htm


del descubrimiento, en tanto éste no puede hacerse consistir en un acto instantáneo de conocimiento, en una especie de revelación súbita. Cuando el explorador descubre una nueva senda en la selva, valiéndose de su machete, las perspectivas que descubre conspectivamente implican a su vez resoluciones o disposiciones sobre el terreno recorrido. Más aún: como es imposible prácticamente en

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Thank you in advance for any advice.

Bob
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Serena HsiMarketing Consultant

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What is the question here? Are you asking for text-to-speech readers or for ASCII help on converting text to accented characters?
BOB KUSPE

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I am asking for help on converting text to accented characters:

For example:

aacute; to á
eacute; to é
iacute; to í
oacute; to ó
uacute; to ú

Best regards

Bob
Flabio Gates

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Well, javascript already knows how to translate those. See fiddle.
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$x = "del descubrimiento, en tanto &eacute;ste no puede hacerse consistir en un acto instant&aacute;neo de conocimiento, en una especie de revelaci&oacute;n s&uacute;bita. Cuando el explorador descubre una nueva senda en la selva, vali&eacute;ndose de su machete, las perspectivas que descubre conspectivamente implican a su vez resoluciones o disposiciones sobre el terreno recorrido. M&aacute;s a&uacute;n: como es imposible pr&aacute;cticamente en";
echo html_entity_decode($x);

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BOB KUSPE

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Hi,

I want this code in ASP or PHP, but I found it in Javascript:

Example:

onClick="replaceFormFields(this.form,'oacute;','ó');

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BOB KUSPE

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Yes, Julian

I love PHP although I am a newby. Simple and efficient
BOB KUSPE

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Many thanks
Julian Hansen
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You are welcome.

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