Конвертация HTML символов в UTF-8

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recode utf-8..html | sed 's/&/\&/g' | recode html..utf-8

$cat decode.py
#!/usr/bin/python3

import html

with open('names', 'r') as f:
        for line in f:
                print(html.unescape(line.strip()))

$./decode.py 
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$ cat 1.txt | perl -MHTML5::DOM -pe '$_ = HTML5::DOM->new({encoding => "UTF-8"})->parse($_)->root->textContent'
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