On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:39:55AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her
> to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I
> do no run OO) although I could get the jist. I then suggested that she
> send plain text.
>
> I don't run any locales but have LANG=C.
>
> Her plain-text files are fine, except that apostrophies (singel-quote)
> (') are replaced with "\222", opening quotes (") with "\223", and
> closing quotes (") with "\224".
>
> Other than writing a python script, can someone give me a simple command
> to fix this so that it is not so distracting? Ideally, I'd put it into
> an executable file and pipe the file through it on it's way to lpr.
>
> e.g.
> $ cool-writing.txt | antiAJ | lpr -Pepson
Here is a sample line from one of the files:
inside. I?m tired of the term ?Best Friends? because what does it
I see in vim that \222 is ~R, \223 is ~S, and \224 is ~T. It is on the
printout (lpd/apsfilter/enscript) that the numbers come out.
Thanks,
Doug.
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