I am looking for a way, preferably in python, but PHP is also ok or even an online site, to convert a string like
"Wählen"
into a string like
"Wählen"
i.e. replacing each ISO 8859-1 character/symbol by its HTML entity.
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echo htmlentities('Wählen', 0, 'utf-8');
^ PHP
PS: Learn the arguments based on where you need the encoded string to appear:
// does not encode quotes
echo htmlentities('"Wählen"', 0, 'utf-8');
// encodes quotes
echo htmlentities('"Wählen"', ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8');
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Alex
I am astonished that PHP seems to provide a better solution (i.e. a simple one-liner) as opposed to python. I like simple solutions.
Something like this
$html="Wählen";
$html = mb_convert_encoding($html, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'ISO-8859-1');
// OR $html = htmlentities($html, ENT_COMPAT, 'ISO-8859-1');
echo $new = htmlspecialchars($html, ENT_QUOTES);
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For Python3
>>> import html.entities
>>> reventities = {k:'&'+v+';' for v,k in html.entities.entitydefs.items()}
>>> "".join(reventities.get(i, i) for i in "Wählen")
'Wählen'
Another (probably faster) way
>>> toentity = {k: '&'+v+';' for k,v in html.entities.codepoint2name.items()}
>>> "Wählen".translate(toentity)
'Wählen'
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Python:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from htmlentitydefs import codepoint2name
def uni_to_html(s):
new_s = ""
for c in s:
try:
new_s += '&{};'.format(codepoint2name[ord(c)])
except KeyError:
new_s += c
return new_s
print uni_to_html(u"Wählen") # Wählen
