On 10-Mar-2008, at 21:16, Fidelis Semper wrote:
Plain ASCII is, of course, just the first 128 characters from the
ASCII table, so it doesn't surprise me that your accented characters
got knocked down to unaccented characters most closely resembling
the original -- È and Ë become E, Ü becomes U,
But that isn't what happens, that is what I WANT to happen.
etc. -- when you did a "Zap Gremlins" on your data. You can get the
same effect if you perform the "Convert to ASCII" function from
BBEdit's "Text" menu. (Actually, the Convert to ASCII has one
advantage over Zap Gremlins in that *some* of the special characters
will be converted to literal equivalents -- π will become pi, ©
will become (c), ∑ becomes Sum, ¥ will become Yen, etc.)
But "Fabuleux destin d'AmÈlie Poulain, Le (2001)" gets converted to
"Fabuleux destin d'AmElie Poulain, Le (2001)" when it should be
displayed as "Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)" and
converted to "Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Le (2001)" (note the
case).
BBEdit is not showing the text the same way that Firefox or nvi shows
it. It has the character as È instead of é (wrong case and wrong
accent).
As for the ‰ ("per thousand") symbol, the closest ASCII equivalent
would be what you got: 0/00, which most people would interpret as
per thousand,
But the character is supposed to be ä, and that is how it appears in
both firefox and nvi.
There are two issues here, the main one is that BBEdit shows the wrong
character (Omega for 1/2 for example) and that means when I convert to
ASCII, I still have gibberish.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on a mailing list?
Seriously? You top posted with this signature? Trying for ironic? ;)
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