Robert Cummings wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 09:39 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
>> Bc. Radek Krejca wrote:
>> 
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> >   I get from webservice strings like this:
>> > 
>> >   Česko anglické gymnázium
>> > 
>> >   I think, that is ANSI, but how to convert it to something else
>> >   (the best is iso-8859-2). I am trying iconv function, but ANSI
>> >   parameter is not supported.
>> 
>> ANSI is not a character set, it's a standards organisation.  You may
>> have meant ASCII, and the string does look as if it could be ASCII.
>> The sequences like &#xNNN are HTML-style symbolic entities.  Take a
>> look at htmlentities().
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art
> 
> You may be too young to have known ;)

I'm 43 - but I never really got much into the BBS world.  I think I
first encountered ANSI escape sequences on DEC VT100 terminals sometime
in the mid-80s.  I've even still got a working VT100 somewhere :-)


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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