Bug#952732: recode: Incorrect encoding of some characters when recoding to HTML_1.1

[Paul Courbis BV]

Package: recode
Version: 3.6-23
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
   Converting UTF_8 files to HTML_1.1

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   echo "îï" | recode UTF_8..HTML_1.1

   * What was the outcome of this action?
   Incorrect HTML code :
   &icircu;&idiaer;

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
   îï
   See https://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/~studla/html-spec_9.html

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.12
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages recode depends on:
ii  libc6       2.24-11+deb9u4
ii  librecode0  3.6-23

recode recommends no packages.

recode suggests no packages.

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