As you've now noted in another reply in this same thread,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hit the nail on the head with his suggestion that
the solution is to re-open the file as Windows (Latin-1) so that the
correct translation occurs.
Sorry if I led you astray with all the "Convert ASCII" stuff I posted
earlier; glad to hear that your solution is now at hand, thank to
gkreme.
~Semper Fi, Mac!
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On Mar 10, 2008, at 9:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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