Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LANG/LC_ALL to html

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:10:31 +0000, Frank Schwidom wrote:

> I expect, if LANG is set to html (if this locale would exist), that if a
> file a.html contains <&gt;> and i make 'cat a.html' then '<' sould
> appear on the console. Is the locale system flexible enough to do this?

That's not what locale is intended for. Even if it were, it wouldn't
affect the output of cat, whose job is to display the contents of the
file verbatim.

Try html2text a.html.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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