#!/usr/bin/python

"""Badly named script. Converts non-ascii UTF-8 text into equivalent decimal
entities for use in HTML and XML. I have C and perl versions of this too.

Requires Python >=2.0, >=2.3 is preferred"""

# Iain Murray 2005

from fileinput import input
import sys

if sys.version_info[0]<2:
	print >> sys.stderr,  "Sorry, Python >=2.0 required"
	sys.exit(1)

if sys.version_info[0]>2 or (sys.version_info[0]==2 and sys.version_info[1]>=3):
	# From python 2.3 "convert to ascii with xml escapes" is easy:
	for txt in input():
		txt=unicode(txt,'utf-8')
		print txt.encode('ascii','xmlcharrefreplace'),
else:
	#  Horrible version for pythons 2.0--2.2
	import re
	def xmlescape(x):
		return ''.join(('&#',str(ord(x.group(0))),';'))
	nonascii=re.compile('[^\x00-\x7F]')
	for txt in input():
		txt=unicode(txt,'utf-8')
		print nonascii.sub(xmlescape,txt).encode('ascii'),