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How to convert the Unicode entities for Japanese into Japanese character

Also know the Unicode entity list for Japanese characters along with named entity list

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Re: To convert the unicode entity (症) to japanese character 在
by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Mar 02, 2015 at 14:26 UTC
    hex(75c7) = 30151 != 22312

    Do you perhaps want to decode HTML Entities?

    Or maybe tr/// the first character into the second?

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Re: To convert the unicode entity (症) to japanese character 在
by graff (Chancellor) on Mar 03, 2015 at 18:20 UTC
    How to convert the Unicode entities for {anything} into {any} character: 
      s/\&#(\d+);/chr($1)/ge;                 # decimal char. entity
  s/\&#x([\da-f]+);/chr(hex($1))/ige;     # hex char. entity

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    Also know the Unicode entity list for Japanese characters:

    http://www.unicode.org/charts/

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Re: To convert the unicode entity (症) to japanese character 在
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 03, 2015 at 18:02 UTC
    The HTML parser you are using to extract the text from the HTML should already be doing that for you.
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