dos2unix???

Gary D Kline kline at thought.org
Tue Apr 15 15:34:48 PDT 2003


On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:39:31PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:39:06PM -0700, Gary D Kline wrote:
> > 
> > 	May I leverage off this post to see if anyone has a solution to 
> > 	scraping away thoseflea-bitten Losedows '0x92' and '0x93' 
> > 	characters and replacing with a simpl apostroph (').
> > 
> > 	If there is already somethng hacked, I would be greatly obliged
> > 	for a pointer.  
> 
> In web pages?  You can fix up such html entities with tidy (ports
> www/tidy or www/tidy-devel) --- the tidy-devel port has the '-bare'
> option that appears to do exactly the sort of transformation you
> require.  See http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html#bare
> 


	Thanks for the pointer Matthew.  Looks like the devel vers
	will do the job....  

	gary

	PS: with 'tr' I  would havde to run it more than once... .


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