This charset is available in recode under the name HTML
and has w3 and WWW for aliases.
HTML texts used by World Wide Web limit themselves to 7-bit characters internally, special sequences beginning with an ampersand & and ending with a semicolon ; are used for representing characters from Latin-1 having the 8th bit set.
When you recode from another charset to HTML, beware that all
occurrences of ampersands are usually translated into the string
`&', similarly, left angle brackets < are translated
into `<' and right angle brackets > are translated into
`>'. However, in practice, people often use ampersands and
angle brackets in the other charset for introducing HTML commands,
compromising it: it is not pure HTML, not it is pure other charset.
These three translations can be rather inconvenient, they may be
specifically inhibited through the command option -d.
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