How to convert html entities to readable text? I want html number entities like ę and want to convert it to real character. I have emails mostly from linkedin that look like this:

How to convert html entities to readable text? I want html number entities like ę and want to convert it to real character. I have emails mostly from linkedin that look like this: > chciałabym zapytać, czy rozważa Pan takze udział w nowych projektach w Warszawie ? Obecnie poszukujemy specjalisty javascript/architekta z bardzo dobrą znajomością Angular.js do projektu, który dotyczy systemu, służącego do monitorowania i zarządzania flotą pojazdów. Zespół, do którego poszukujemy I'm using clawsmail, switching to html don't convert it to text, I've try to copy and use xclip -o -sel clip | html2text | less but it didn't convert the entities. Is there a way to have that text using command line tools? The only way I can think of is to use `data:text/html,<PASTE THE EMAIL>` and open it in a browser, but would prefer the command line.

With Free `recode` (formerly known as GNU `recode`):

recode html < file

If you don't have `recode` or `HTML::Entities` and only need to decode `&#x;` entities, you could do it by hand with:

perl -Mopen=locale -pe 's/&#x([\da-f]+);/chr hex $1/gie'