Here is any example (see screenshot) of an encode HTML entity which I trapped and decoded (in a custom JS function I wrote) yesterday:
However, I don't think these occasional encoded HTML entities are causing the rare bug where the correct answer to a T/F statement is null, causing some rare problem I have am still debugging.
Hi,
I haven't posted on the forums for a while now, I tried to find the most appropriate section for this post, but if this is in the wrong section please forgive me.
First, let me say I'm a sophomore in HS. I know that job wise I definitely want to do something in computers. A while ago I was... (5 Replies)
I am now a student in university in 2nd year. I am studying computer science. But I am not sure what type of jobs computer science provide. I know some of them are software programming or network management. Recently, I hear some about Web Development. I wonder if it is a part of computer science.... (1 Reply)
I am now a student in university in 2nd year. I am studying computer science. But I am not sure what type of jobs computer science provide. I know some of them are software programming or network management. Recently, I hear some about Web Development. I wonder if it is a part of computer... (3 Replies)
I have added a new experimental "Computer Science and Mathematics Trivia - True or False" section in the discussions, currently under the tags box.
In the future, I plan to
Expand this feature to add more trivia categories from math, science and technology.
Keep track of correct and... (20 Replies)
The UNIX and Linux Forums now has over 1000 TRUE / FALSE computer science and computer related trivia question in our database. These questions are of relatively high quality (compared to similar sites on the web) and are fun (according to feedback by users). In the first week during the... (1 Reply)
Thanks to Akshay, who helped me write the core MySQL queries, we now have two new draft leaderboards, by (1) member and by (2) country:
https://www.unix.com/trivia_stats.php
Currently milhan leads the members with a high score of 90%:
... (3 Replies)
Just noticed that our successful computer trivia feature (stats here) has surpassed over 50,000 questions answered by users:
https://www.unix.com/trivia_stats.php
This was a coding effort worth while and I'm pleased to see so many people enjoying it in such a short time since it was released... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Neo
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vilistextum
VILISTEXTUM(1) General Commands Manual VILISTEXTUM(1)NAME
vilistextum - html to ascii converter
SYNOPSIS
vilistextum [OPTIONS] [inputfile |-] [outputfile | -]
DESCRIPTION
vilistextum is a html to ascii converter specifically programmed to get the best out of incorrect html.
OPTIONS
inputfile,- resp. outputfile,-
replace inputfile with '-' for reading from standard input, likewise outputfile with '-' for writing to standard output.
-a, --no-alt
don't output anything for IMG tags even if they have an ALT attribute. Implies --no-image.
-c, --convert-tags
some tags will be converted to special characters.
-e, --errorlevel NUMBER
increase level of verbosity for error messages (0: No error messages).
-i, --defimage STRING
IMG tags without alt attribute are output as [STRING].
-l, --links
numbers the links in the document and creates footnotes of each link at the end of the file.
-k, --links-inline
print the links directly after the html tag.
-m, --dont-convert-characters
don't convert the entities from windows1252 (€-Ÿ and their proper entity names)
-n, --no-image
don't output [Image] for IMG tags that have no ALT attribute.
-p, --palm
output text more suitable for reading on a PDA.
-r, --remove-empty-alt
if there is an empty ALT attribute in a IMG tag (eg <IMG href="..." alt="">), don't output '[]'.
-s, --shrink-lines [NUMBER]
if there are more than NUMBER empty lines, output only NUMBER. Default: 1.
-t, --no-title
don't output title.
-w, --width NUMBER
maximum line width.
-h, --help
display this help and exit
-v, --version
output version information and exit
MULTIBYTE OPTIONS (Only available if compiled with multibyte support)-u, --output-utf-8
instead of the character set of the html document, everything will be output as utf-8.
-x, --translit
use the //TRANSLIT feature of libiconv. Consult the iconv manual for details.
-y, --charset CHARSET
if the HTML document doesn't provide a character set in the meta tags, use CHARSET.
LIMITATIONS
The rendering of tables is not very good.
The handling of OL is incomplete. The program treats it as UL and more than 10 nested lists confuse it.
Text is never justified.
REPORTING BUGS
Please report bugs to <bhaak@gmx.net>.
AUTHOR
Vilistextum was written by Patric Mueller <bhaak@gmx.net> and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
Version 2. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.
SEE ALSO iconv(3), lynx(1), links(1), w3m(1)
22 OCT 2006 VILISTEXTUM(1)