On Wed, 26 May 2010 18:38:47 -0700, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > > > guys, > > is there anything that can take these hex triplets such as > > We Don\xe2\x80\x99t > > and render them back to the ascii or keyboard equivalents? > in this case, the \x99 would be an apostrophe. > thus: > > > We Don't > > tia, > > gsry > > ps: even lynx -dump messes up, i believe. i'm trying to go from > DOC back to typewriter....
Yes, even a typewriter is better than DOC. :-) To process DOC files into ASCII, there are several ways, with different complexity: Most complex ones: Use OpenOffice or Abiword, open the file and save it as ASCII. Included "special characters" should be in regular ASCII representation now. Better: Use (from ports) catdoc or antiword. I'm not sure in how far conflicting codepages may be involved. It is known that "Windows" does have problems supporting standards, and this applies to character sets and language variations, too. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
