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On 2003-04-15 15:34, Gary D Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:39:31PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:39:06PM -0700, Gary D Kline wrote:
>>> May I leverage off this post to see if anyone has a solution to
>>> scraping away thoseflea-bitten Losedows '0x92' and '0x93'
>>> characters and replacing with a simpl apostroph (').
>>>
>>> If there is already somethng hacked, I would be greatly obliged
>>> for a pointer.
>>
>> In web pages?  You can fix up such html entities with tidy (ports
>> www/tidy or www/tidy-devel) --- the tidy-devel port has the '-bare'
>> option that appears to do exactly the sort of transformation you
>> require.  See http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html#bare
>
> Thanks for the pointer Matthew.  Looks like the devel vers
> will do the job....
>
> PS: with 'tr' I  would havde to run it more than once...

Or pass arguments like:

	$ tr '\222\223' "''"

:)