HTML Entities Encode / Decode help

Convert between plain text and HTML entities, both directions, as you type.

Encode

• Named where possible uses ©, —, and so on, falling back to a numeric reference for characters with no name in the table.
• Minimal escapes only & < > " ' — enough to be safe in HTML while leaving accented letters readable.
• Numeric writes every non-ASCII and markup character as &#NN;.

Decode

Handles named entities, decimal references ( ), and hex references ( ). Unknown names and malformed references are left untouched.

Notes

• The named table covers Latin-1, common punctuation and symbols, Greek letters, arrows, and currency — the characters people actually paste.

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