Why is my entity unchanged?

It may be an unsupported named entity; use numeric form or a full HTML parser.

Yes. € style references work.

Encode then decode round-trip?

For the characters this tool handles, pairing with HTML encode usually matches.

Paste text with entities. Unknown named entities are left as-is.

HTML entities

Text

Numeric decimal and hexadecimal references are resolved to Unicode code points.

A small set of named entities (amp, lt, gt, quot, apos, nbsp) is supported.

Very large HTML entity lists are not embedded; exotic names may not decode here.

Decoding does not execute HTML; it only produces text.

Why is my entity unchanged?: It may be an unsupported named entity; use numeric form or a full HTML parser.
Hex codes?: Yes. € style references work.
Encode then decode round-trip?: For the characters this tool handles, pairing with HTML encode usually matches.
Local only?: Yes.