Re: converting octal strings to unicode

2004-12-24 Thread TZOTZIOY
On 23 Dec 2004 18:41:57 -0800, rumours say that [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: >I have several ascii files that contain '\ooo' strings which represent >the octal value for a character. I want to convert these files to >unicode, and I came up with the following script. But it seems to me >th

converting octal strings to unicode

2004-12-23 Thread flamingivanova
I have several ascii files that contain '\ooo' strings which represent the octal value for a character. I want to convert these files to unicode, and I came up with the following script. But it seems to me that there must be a much simpler way to do it. Could someone more experienced suggest some i