Hi Monks, I have a lot of HTML files with Numeric Character Reference (NCR) and Character Entity References (CER) presentation like: 
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I would like to convert all into UTF-8 characters. I'm a Perl's newbie so I try a stupid method (for NCR decimal < 255 and CER presentation only): 
my %ARR = (
  'acirc' => 'â', 'atilde' => 'ã', 'auml' => 'ä',
  '226' => 'â', '227' => 'ã', '228' => 'ä'
);
while(<>){
  s/&#?([^;]+);/$ARR{$1}/g;
  print $_;
}
exit;

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I'm sure that there is better way to do that. So I'm there and I would like to learn from you all. Thank you in advance,

In reply to NCR & CER to UTF-8 by vnpenguin

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