Richard Heyes wrote:
>> Does anyone know way to passthru man pages so they don't show the
>> ascii formating?
> 
> You could:
> 
> 1) Replace all newlines (ASCII 10) with a <br> tag. htmlspecialchars()
>    will do this for you.

Does it? I thought it only replaced entities. \n is not a "special char"
in html lingo in that you can include them happily in a document and it
is still syntactically correct!

I believe you want the nl2br() function instead here.

> 2) Use a <pre> tag within which newlines are preserved
> 3) Use preg_replace to replace non-printable characters (Can't remember
>    how exactly, but everything you need is in the manual - you will want
>    to strip everything from ASCII 1 - ASCII 32. IIRC.
> 

I think it would be more to do with the special characters for making
things bold and overwriting etc. rather than new lines specifically but
I think you're 3rd point should work (without thinking about it too much :))

Col

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