Thanks, that sounds hopeful... at least it does something, though
still not right!
After reading perldoc Encode::Supported I think maybe I threw myself
in at the deep end. (MacRoman is the encoding I _think_ I mean).
I am off on another track for now and will return to Perl another day.
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I am trying to use perl on the command line to process text files in
various ways, one of which is to decode html entities. As far as I can
see, the following line should work
perl -MHTML::Entities -p -e 'decode_entities($_)' input.txt
output.txt
it does indeed change the html entities, but not