Converting utf8 text to html text javascript

[scottyadam]

So I started writing some functions to do this but i cannot be the first one to think of this or what to accomplish this...in javascript.

So for utf8 to html I'm doing something like this

function utf8tohtml(utftxt)
{
        utftxt = utftxt.replace(/&/g,"&")
        utftxt = utftxt.replace(/Á/g,"Á")
        utftxt = utftxt.replace(/É/g,"É")
        utftxt = utftxt.replace(/Í/g,"Í")
        utftxt = utftxt.replace(/Ó/g,"Ó")
        utftxt = utftxt.replace(/Ú/g,"Ú")
        utftxt = utftxt.replace(/Ý/g,"Ý")
        utftxt = utftxt.replace(/ý/g,"ý")
        utftxt = utftxt.replace(/á/g,"á")
        utftxt = utftxt.replace(/é/g,"é")
        return utftxt
}

for html to utf8 i'm doing something like this

function htmltoutf(txt)
{
        txt = txt.replace(/}/,'}');      // right curly brace
        txt = txt.replace(/~/,'~');      // tilde
        txt = txt.replace(//,'');      // box
        txt = txt.replace(/€/,'€');      // Euro
        txt = txt.replace(/ƒ/,'ƒ');      // florin
        txt = txt.replace(/…/,'…');      // ellipsis
        txt = txt.replace(/ˆ/,'ˆ');      // circumflex accent
        txt = txt.replace(/Š/,'Š');      // 
        txt = txt.replace(/Œ/,'Œ');      // capital OE ligature
        return txt
}

and there is more...i've just stopped here for this example...

appreciate the ideas...