lyricwiki.el

(defun decode-entities (dirty-string)
  "Interprets a string of space-separated numbers as an
ASCII string"
  (mapconcat (lambda (x) (format "%c" (string-to-number x)))
             (split-string (clean-encoded-string dirty-string))
             ""))

(defun clean-encoded-string (string)
  "Removes useless characters and replaces linebreaks with a
line-feed (LF) char."
  (gsub ";" " "                                   ; add an empty space to split-string later
   (gsub "&#" ""                                  ; first 2 characters are useless
    (gsub "\\(\n\\|<br />\\)" "&#10; " string)))) ; replace line break with LF (10)