character entities versus utf-8 coded special characters are they Illegal HTML character s?

> Greetings All,
> I was playing in the sandbox  and I was trying to extract data from  
> a webpage  runing xquery against a webpage
> The webpage was iso-8859-2 i decided  I need my national characters  
> so let's convert to utf-8
> I tought w3c's Amaya is standard enough to complete this task so i  
> opened the webpage in Amaya and saved it as utf-8
> Well no. not really  orbeon is strict it says:
>    Illegal HTML character: decimal 145
> I did some research like:
> let $guessifok :=(144,145,146)
> return
> <p>
> { codepoints-to-string($guessifok)}
>    </p>
>
> OPS doesn't eat utf-8 coded control characters this way am I right?
> Is that a bad idea to make ops silently ignore these chars as -I  
> guess- browsers do it in some cases?
> somebody please any workaround besides
> http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/convert-to-html.php
>
>
> I'm too lazy or too busy to write more than a short script for this.
> Any good hints or links?
> Thanks for your time and your effort
> --Zolta
>
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> Greetings All,
> I was playing in the sandbox  and I was trying to extract data from  
> a webpage  runing xquery against a webpage
> • The webpage was iso-8859-2 i decided  I need my national  
> characters so let's convert to utf-8
> • I tought w3c's Amaya is standard enough to complete this task so  
> i opened the webpage in Amaya and saved it as utf-8
> • Well no. not really  orbeon is strict it says:
>    Illegal HTML character: decimal 145
> • I did some research like:
> let $guessifok :=(144,145,146)
> return
> <p>
> { codepoints-to-string($guessifok)}
>    </p>
>
> • OPS doesn't eat utf-8 coded control characters this way am I right?
> • Is that a bad idea to make ops silently ignore these chars as -I  
> guess- browsers do it in some cases?
> somebody please any workaround besides
> http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/convert-to-html.php
>
>
> I'm too lazy or too busy to write more than a short script for this.
> Any good hints or links?
> Thanks for your time and your effort
> --Zolta
>
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