Anyone know how to get rid of these ugly html character entities?

[Pascal Calarco]

The arrows are correctly rendered in FWN 161 for me, how does that one 
look for you, Oisin?

What I started out with was the printable version of the wiki page, and 
then threw this into an editor to tweak the headings and such.

   - pascal

Oisin Feeley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Heads up to the other editors preparing the mailshot:
> 
> I see that the LWN.net[1] copy of FWN#162 has some ugly HTML numeric
> character references. The little upwards arrow[2] which is used on the
> wikipage to allow readers to jump back to the text seems not to be
> replaced with a code when it's processed through maillists. Anyone got
> any ideas of how to get rid of this?  All I can think of was using vim
> to manually find the hex for the multibyte character (positioned cursor
> over up-arrow and did a :ga and got 2191 as the hex code) and then
> substituting over the entire file using a:
> % s/CTRL-v u 2191//g
> 
> It's no biggie, but I'd rather not have an extra editing step if anyone
> can suggest something automated.
> 
> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/318707/
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html : <!ENTITY uarr    
> CDATA "&#8593;" -- upwards arrow, U+2191 ISOnum-->
> 
> Best,