On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:51:41AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >looking for a charset translator, in all the wrong places--
> >
> > man ascii
> > man iso_8859_1
> > man iso_8859_7
> > man iso_8859_15
> > man utf-8
> > man charsets
> >
> >been through all those.
>
> Try 'recode', which knows about every character set I've ever heard of
> plus a lot.
good start -- but it doesn't take typeset-right-quote and change
it to apostrophe, or em-dash and change it to dash-dash, for
example. it fixes some, but not most.
so -- newbie question here -- how do i specify 8th-bit
characters from the keyboard? i.e. how can i create umlaut-u or
cedilla-C or em-dash? (on a mac, it's option-u/u and option-C
and option-shift-dash, respectively.) surely there's a quick
howto, somewhere.
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #45 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
Troubled by DOS-FORMAT TEXT FILES? There are many ways
to get rid of the extra ^M characters. In VIM, try
:set ff=unix
before saving the file (":opt" for more info); or, use perl:
perl -pi.dos -e 's/\cM//g' filename*pattern.txt
("perldoc perlrun" for more info.)
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
