problems with (decode-coding-region 'utf-8: ' gives &#39

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Rodney Sparapani writes:

 > > J'étais aujourd'hui à Paris

 > The single quote is being rendered as an HTML character entity.

That's right.

 > This must be an encoding that XEmacs knows about.

No, at least not the base XEmacs.  It's an SGML thingee, and is needed
for the purpose of including literal SGML tags in SGML documents, and
has nothing to do with coding systems per se.

 > However, looking over (coding-system-list), I can't identify it.

I suggested w3-parse.el to Uwe.  There may also be some support in
psgml, and nxml-mode (which is not yet provided by XEmacs) as well,
but they're more likely to have functions to *produce* entities than
to parse them.