Gil,

If you are using Linux, or a system with GNU iconv  (even Windows with
cygwin), you can do this:

 iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//translit < sample.c > sample2.c

"translit" causes characters that cannot be represented in the target set
to be approximated by "similarly looking" characters.

I tried this on the the messed up example in the C++ RTL and it does
correct the goofy slashes.


Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Jack J. Woehr <[email protected]> wrote:

> John McKown wrote:
>
>>   that publications people are using a "smart
>> editor" to create their documentation. Much like MS Word (may it be
>> accursed)​
>>
>> ​ inserts "smart quotes" when I want inch and foot marks (" and ').
>>
> There's an option in Word (ptui, ptui) to turn this behavior off. "Smart
> quotes" (ha!) drove me quite bonkers in corporate email (Outlook, ptui,
> ptui) until I found that setting.
>
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> Carl Sagan
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