Anyone know how to get rid of these ugly html character entities?

[Oisin Feeley]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:52:00 -0500, "Pascal Calarco" <pcalarco at nd.edu>
said:

> 
> What I started out with was the printable version of the wiki page, and 
> then threw this into an editor to tweak the headings and such.
> 
>    - pascal
> 
> Oisin Feeley wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Heads up to the other editors preparing the mailshot:
> > 
> > I see that the LWN.net[1] copy of FWN#162 has some ugly HTML numeric
> > character references. The little upwards arrow[2] which is used on the
> > wikipage to allow readers to jump back to the text seems not to be
> > replaced with a code when it's processed through maillists. Anyone got
> > any ideas of how to get rid of this?  All I can think of was using vim
> > to manually find the hex for the multibyte character (positioned cursor
> > over up-arrow and did a :ga and got 2191 as the hex code) and then
> > substituting over the entire file using a:
> > % s/CTRL-v u 2191//g
> > 
> > It's no biggie, but I'd rather not have an extra editing step if anyone
> > can suggest something automated.
> > 
> > [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/318707/
> > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html : <!ENTITY uarr    
> > CDATA "↑" -- upwards arrow, U+2191 ISOnum-->

> The arrows are correctly rendered in FWN 161 for me, how does that one 
> look for you, Oisin?

http://lwn.net/Articles/317847/

What I'm seeing with Firefox-3.0.6 (same as used for previous report)
right now are question marks "?" where the up-arrows should be. Not as
deranged looking as the numeric character references, but still not
nice.

Good night,
-- 
  Oisin Feeley
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OisinFeeley