Tim wrote:
Though, in this day and age, we've
probably got to the stage where you're better off using UTF-8, rather
than entities.
This is certainly the best advise. If for some reason it's not
acceptable, there is recode:
$ echo Ä | recode -d ..HTML
Ä
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