Interviewed by CNN on 30/08/2013 02:34, Ken F told the world: > > I will experiment with that. Doing the actual html codes could be a good > basic quick fix for me to do for restoring copyright symbols, and other > isolated symbols on webpages. It may be more difficult for the much older > story webpages from 10 years ago, where the left-quotes and right-quotes and > apostrophes are also now displaying as <?>.
There is software that will do the conversion for you. HTMLtidy, for instance, is able to take all your Win-1252 and convert it into US-ASCII, changing all those curly quotes into appropriate HTML entities such as ‘, ’ and such. Note: there three major "generations" of HTMLtidy around the web: - The original one by Dave Raggett, which is very old (there are still some sites offering that one) - The "official" updated version at Sourceforge, which is improved but has no support for HTML5 stuff: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ (This page also has a lot of documentation) - And Tidy-HTML5, a new (unstable) fork which is adding support for HTML5, but for which it's a bit hard to find standalone binaries -- the most recent one I found was here: http://tidybatchfiles.info/ Since you are mostly dealing with oldish pages, with no HTML5, your best bet is probably the Sourceforge page. The good points about Tidy: it's a command-line tool, therefore it's not that hard to find some way to run it on all your HTML files in a batch. Also, it will find (and attempt to fix) a lot of HTML syntax errors. The bad points about Tidy: it's a command-line tool, so there is some effort involved on learning to use it. Also, you don't see what it does as it is doing it -- Its syntax-fixing algorithm is prone to do stupid things. I mostly use it as an error FINDER, not an error FIXER; I run it (taking care to keep a backup of the original file), check the error log, revert to the backup file and fix the errors by hand. But if your code is reasonably clean and free of stupid errors like forgetting to close <b> tags, the auto-fixing might work for you. You should check the pages afterwards just in case, to see if Tidy didn't make a mess of them, as it sometimes happens. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Buttocks. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.20 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
