I am looking for an easy way to convert HTML entities, like 
´
 
&

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into thier numeric representations.

So.
& would be converted to &
¡ would be converted to ¡

and so on.

I need this to work for ALL of the HTML entities. I am trying to get out of writting
a search and replace regex for all 255 of the different HTML entities like this. :)

I find it hard to believe that there is not a module already out ther that can do this for me.

Any help or pointer on solving this problem would be much appreciated.

Best Regards,
Wonko

In reply to Converting HTML Entities to thier numeric equivalent by Wonko the sane

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