How to convert numeric entities to standard letters and read your email!

[spiros]

You have just received an email. All you see is some numbers like this:

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&#  931;&# 964;&# 945;
&# 949;&# 955;&# 955;&# 951;&# 957;&# 953;&# 954;&# 940;
&# 956;&# 960;&# 959;&# 961;&# 974; &# 957;&# 945;
&# 949;&# 954;&# 966;&# 961;&# 945;&# 963;&# 964;&# 974;
&# 954;&# 945;&# 955;&# 973;&# 964;&# 949;&# 961;&# 945;, &# 954;&# 945;&# 953;
&# 972;&# 960;&# 959;&# 965; &# 949;&# 943;&# 957;&# 945;&# 953;
&# 945;&# 957;&# 940;&# 947;&# 954;&# 951; &# 964;&# 945;
&# 967;&# 961;&# 951;&# 963;&# 953;&# 956;&# 959;&# 960;&# 959;&# 953;&# 974;.
(I have intentionally added an extra space after the # symbol otherwise they would be parsed by the browser as standard letters)

Is all hope lost? No!

Open your web page editor (Microsoft Frontpage / Dreamweaver) and paste it in the code. When you preview it the letters will appear.

Another method is to paste them to a txt file and change the extension to .html and then open it in a browser and just like magic standard characters will appear. Try it with the above text (remember to remove the extra space before all the # symbols)...

Here is a chart for the Greek numeric entities:

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<!-- Latin Extended-B →
<!ENTITY fnof     CDATA "&# 402;" -- latin small f with hook = function
                                    = florin, U+0192 ISOtech →

<!-- Greek →
<!ENTITY Alpha    CDATA "&# 913;" -- greek capital letter alpha, U+0391 →
<!ENTITY Beta     CDATA "&# 914;" -- greek capital letter beta, U+0392 →
<!ENTITY Gamma    CDATA "&# 915;" -- greek capital letter gamma,
                                    U+0393 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY Delta    CDATA "&# 916;" -- greek capital letter delta,
                                    U+0394 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY Epsilon  CDATA "&# 917;" -- greek capital letter epsilon, U+0395 →
<!ENTITY Zeta     CDATA "&# 918;" -- greek capital letter zeta, U+0396 →
<!ENTITY Eta      CDATA "&# 919;" -- greek capital letter eta, U+0397 →
<!ENTITY Theta    CDATA "&# 920;" -- greek capital letter theta,
                                    U+0398 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY Iota     CDATA "&# 921;" -- greek capital letter iota, U+0399 →
<!ENTITY Kappa    CDATA "&# 922;" -- greek capital letter kappa, U+039A →
<!ENTITY Lambda   CDATA "&# 923;" -- greek capital letter lambda,
                                    U+039B ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY Mu       CDATA "&# 924;" -- greek capital letter mu, U+039C →
<!ENTITY Nu       CDATA "&# 925;" -- greek capital letter nu, U+039D →
<!ENTITY Xi       CDATA "&# 926;" -- greek capital letter xi, U+039E ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY Omicron  CDATA "&# 927;" -- greek capital letter omicron, U+039F →
<!ENTITY Pi       CDATA "&# 928;" -- greek capital letter pi, U+03A0 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY Rho      CDATA "&# 929;" -- greek capital letter rho, U+03A1 →
<!-- there is no Sigmaf, and no U+03A2 character either →
<!ENTITY Sigma    CDATA "&# 931;" -- greek capital letter sigma,
                                    U+03A3 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY Tau      CDATA "&# 932;" -- greek capital letter tau, U+03A4 →
<!ENTITY Upsilon  CDATA "&# 933;" -- greek capital letter upsilon,
                                    U+03A5 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY Phi      CDATA "&# 934;" -- greek capital letter phi,
                                    U+03A6 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY Chi      CDATA "&# 935;" -- greek capital letter chi, U+03A7 →
<!ENTITY Psi      CDATA "&# 936;" -- greek capital letter psi,
                                    U+03A8 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY Omega    CDATA "&# 937;" -- greek capital letter omega,
                                    U+03A9 ISOgrk3 →

<!ENTITY alpha    CDATA "&# 945;" -- greek small letter alpha,
                                    U+03B1 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY beta     CDATA "&# 946;" -- greek small letter beta, U+03B2 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY gamma    CDATA "&# 947;" -- greek small letter gamma,
                                    U+03B3 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY delta    CDATA "&# 948;" -- greek small letter delta,
                                    U+03B4 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY epsilon  CDATA "&# 949;" -- greek small letter epsilon,
                                    U+03B5 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY zeta     CDATA "&# 950;" -- greek small letter zeta, U+03B6 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY eta      CDATA "&# 951;" -- greek small letter eta, U+03B7 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY theta    CDATA "&# 952;" -- greek small letter theta,
                                    U+03B8 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY iota     CDATA "&# 953;" -- greek small letter iota, U+03B9 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY kappa    CDATA "&# 954;" -- greek small letter kappa,
                                    U+03BA ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY lambda   CDATA "&# 955;" -- greek small letter lambda,
                                    U+03BB ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY mu       CDATA "&# 956;" -- greek small letter mu, U+03BC ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY nu       CDATA "&# 957;" -- greek small letter nu, U+03BD ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY xi       CDATA "&# 958;" -- greek small letter xi, U+03BE ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY omicron  CDATA "&# 959;" -- greek small letter omicron, U+03BF NEW →
<!ENTITY pi       CDATA "&# 960;" -- greek small letter pi, U+03C0 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY rho      CDATA "&# 961;" -- greek small letter rho, U+03C1 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY sigmaf   CDATA "&# 962;" -- greek small letter final sigma,
                                    U+03C2 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY sigma    CDATA "&# 963;" -- greek small letter sigma,
                                    U+03C3 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY tau      CDATA "&# 964;" -- greek small letter tau, U+03C4 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY upsilon  CDATA "&# 965;" -- greek small letter upsilon,
                                    U+03C5 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY phi      CDATA "&# 966;" -- greek small letter phi, U+03C6 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY chi      CDATA "&# 967;" -- greek small letter chi, U+03C7 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY psi      CDATA "&# 968;" -- greek small letter psi, U+03C8 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY omega    CDATA "&# 969;" -- greek small letter omega,
                                    U+03C9 ISOgrk3 →
<!ENTITY thetasym CDATA "&# 977;" -- greek small letter theta symbol,
                                    U+03D1 NEW →
<!ENTITY upsih    CDATA "&# 978;" -- greek upsilon with hook symbol,
                                    U+03D2 NEW →
<!ENTITY piv      CDATA "&# 982;" -- greek pi symbol, U+03D6 ISOgrk3 →


[diceman]

And here's a complete list of HTML 4.0 entities:

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/

[banned8]

Alternatively, copy the complete coded text and go to this address:
http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/unicode/converter.html

Paste the text into the box in the second row, on the left, and press the button: Decimal Codes to Characters.
Your Greek text will appear in the box above.

Didn't I learn this here? Who gave me this valuable address?

[spiros]

"The page requires Internet Explorer", bliah! I will use Netscape to open it (now it is like using both IE and Mozilla - you can switch rendering engines on the fly).

[banned8]

Another method is to paste them to a txt file and change the extension to .html and then open it in a browser and just like magic standard characters will appear. Try it with the above text (remember to remove the extra space before all the # symbols)...

Ακόμα πιο εύκολα: Στο ίδιο το μήνυμα, File → Save As → Στο Save As Type διαλέξτε *.txt (οποιοδήποτε από τα δύο), προσθέστε κατάληξη .htm και ανοίξτε το με τον browser κ.λπ.

[Alex1200GS]

Αντιθέτως, εάν θέλει κανείς να μετατρέψει Ελληνικούς χαρακτήρες σε UTF-8 entities, μπορεί να χρησιμοποιήσει το προγραμματάκι που έγραψα για έναν πελάτη πριν μερικά χρόνια και υπάρχει ακόμα στο server μου: http://www.translab.gr/utf/utf8a.php

Αφού αντιγράψετε το κείμενό σας στη φόρμα, πατήστε το κουμπί και στην επόμενη σελίδα επιλέξτε View/Source από το μενού του ΙΕ, ή View/Page source από το μενού του Firefox.

Εναλλακτικά, μπορείτε να αποθηκεύσετε τη δεύτερη σελίδα στον υπολογιστή σας και να την ανοίξετε με το Notepad.

[spiros]

Ή να κάνει επικόλληση ελληνικό κείμενο σε κάποιο επεξεργαστή ιστοσελίδων ενώ η κωδικοποίηση είναι iso-8859-1.

Π.χ. Dreamweaver

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
& delta;& omicron;& kappa;& iota;& mu;& #942;</body>
</html>
ή Frontpage:

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>
& #948;& #959;& #954;& #953;& #956;& #942;