Use case:
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1. OSX 10.7, bunch of .tex files culled from a blog via some cruddy old Perl
script.
.tex files are utf-8 encoded, which means the quotes and apostrophes drop out
going through pdflatex.
2. Recommend using git to manage the .tex files, which are all in a /src
directory in the project. If you're going to do batch edits, You Will Need to
branch, realize you gooned up, and roll back.
3. Understood, sed is the more classical tool here, except that I could not it
to work in my OSX terminal.
Invocation:
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python charfix.py `ls src/*.tex`
charfix.py code:
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import fileinput
def process(line):
print line.replace( "’", "'" ).replace( "“", '"' ).replace( "”", '"' )
if __name__=="__main__":
for line in fileinput.input( inplace=1 ):
process(line)
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Discussion:
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