On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 15:24 -0400, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I have this file: > > $ cat test | od -t u1 > 0000000 181 220 210 221 149 132 163 168 183 189 193 166 201 234 163 169 > ^^^ ^^^ >
Maybe I've missed something, but why are you piping this through `od`? And, below, you just pass to `tidy`?? > When using tidy, it gives wired result: > > $ cat test | tidy -quiet -numeric > [...] > µÜÒÝ•„£¨·½Á¦É꣩ > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > [...] > > Notice the extreme big number pointed by ^^^? > > Why can't tidy encode exactly as the "od -t u1" output, i.e., •„ > instead of •...? It will give me trouble when the result is further > processed by other tools, e.g., Perl XML::XPath. > > Moreover, after using the "-bare" option to "strip out smart quotes and em > dashes, etc.", the result is even more wired, even seems wrong to me: > > $ cat test | tidy -quiet -numeric -bare > [...] > µÜÒÝ•"£¨·½Á¦É꣩ > ^^^^^^^^ > [...] > > Anybody has some comment on this? > > Thanks > > PS. to produce the test file: > > echo '181 220 210 221 149 132 163 168 183 189 193 166 201 234 163 169' | perl > -ne 'print chr $_ for split /\s+/' > test > > tong > > > > -- Michael Bane Atmospheric Physics Group University of Manchester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
