Tim Starling wrote:
If you don't have a system capable of this automatic conversion, you could try one of the many client-side and web-based tools written for this purpose, e.g.
The JavaScript one is fast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unicode_numeric_converter_script
Btw, bug#65: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65