[dm-l] Character reference conversions: help?

[Roberto Rosselli Del Turco]

Il giorno mar, 05-10-2004 alle 12:53 -0600, Daniel O'Donnell ha scritto:
> Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm
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> Hello all,
> 	I need some advice on converting Unicode character references. 
> Currently, am encoding character references in what I believe is UCS-4 
> format (Universal Character Set). This means they look like this in my 
> source files:
> 
> ႐
> 
> I want to import xhtml documents into Open Office, which seems to need 
> UTF-8 encoding (I don't know what UTF stands for). Does anybody know of 
> a filter that might do the conversions for me? Or have advice on using 
> open office (Windows version) with UCS-4 encoding?

Can't you just copy and paste your documents from
Mozilla/Firefox/whatever into OOo? I know, this looks too simple to be
true ... but I just tried[1] and it works!

Ciao

[1] Picked up an xhtml file, inserted random decimal entities, loaded it
in Epiphany (based on Mozilla's engine), copied text and pasted it into
a unicode text editor: I ended up with unicode characters.

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