reading and converting web page HTML text

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Mar 6 22:14:06 EST 2010


Mark Stuart wrote:
> Looking up runrev Dictionary for "HTML", does result in a find (HTMLtext),
> which mentions the following near the very end.
>>>
> Special characters (whose ASCII value is greater than 127) are encoded as
> HTML entities. Revolution recognizes the following named entities:
> <<
> and then it lists all the entities it currently supports.
>
> I'd say that using the HTMLtext function would handle all these html
> entities. But it appears to not do that.
> Therefore, should I submit a bug report on this?

Which ones have you found that don't work?

The one from your original post (Björnke) does.

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