sgmllib doesn't support the hexadecimal style of character nor 
Unicode characters, both of which are commonly seen on web pages. 
The following replacements fix both problems.

charref = re.compile('&#([0-9a-fA-F]+)[^0-9a-fA-F]')

	def handle_charref(self, ref):
		try:
			if ref[0] == 'x' or ref[0] == 'X': m = 
int(ref[1:], 16)
			else: m = int(ref)
			self.handle_data(unichr(m).encode('utf-8'))
		except ValueError:
			self.unknown_charref(ref)

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Oops, that should be: 

charref = re.compile('&#([0-9a-fA-FxX][0-9a-fA-F]*)[^0-9a-fA-F]')

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Are you sure hexadecimal character references are part of
the SGML standard?

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I don't have the money to shell out for the XML spec, but according to http://
developers.omnimark.com/documentation/concept/764.htm they were 
added in SGML TC 2.

SGML TC 2 can be found here:
http://www1.y12.doe.gov/capabilities/sgml/wg8/document/1955.htm

See the section K.4.1 for hexidecimal character references.

Since this is really an update to the SGML standard, and not part of the
original, any support for this should be an optional feature.  It's
really only interesting on the web, where standards compliance is... a
little on the lax side.  It would be reasonable to enable this by
default from htmllib (if not already supported in htmllib; I don't
remember).

I'm fairly sure hex character references are already supported in
HTMLParser.

gads ... didn't mean to submit a title change there

Since this is removed from Python 3, should the status be changed to Rejected?

Rejected since this didn't make it into Python 2.7.