HTML::Entities(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation HTML::Entities(3) NAME HTML::Entities - Encode or decode strings with HTML entities SYNOPSIS use HTML::Entities; $a = "Våre norske tegn bør æres"; decode_entities($a); encode_entities($a, "\200-\377"); For example, this: $input = "vis- perl v5.8.6 2006-04-26 HTML::Entities(3)