National-character conversion

[Tim]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:50 +0100, Albert A. Modderkolk wrote:
> Is there a tool that converts, for example, the u-umlaut into the ü
> symbol?  Would be nice if it could convert any national-language
> characters.

If you mean within HTML files, you can use HTML tidy and specify options
about input and output encoding.  Though, in this day and age, we've
probably got to the stage where you're better off using UTF-8, rather
than entities.