Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:22:17 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do i translate non-ascii chars??? Message-ID: <200502211822.17784.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20050221230054.GA58364@thought.org> References: <20050221065149.GA77396@thought.org> <200502202354.49454.kstewart@owt.com> <20050221230054.GA58364@thought.org>
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On Monday 21 February 2005 03:00 pm, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:54:49PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 February 2005 10:51 pm, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > l
> > > Guys,
> > >
> > > I've got sseveral HTML files with O-aigu and O-grave and
> > > others (these files were composed on a Mac. Rather than
> > > display as ['] (apostrophes) or backticks, they are rendered
> > > in full 8859-1.
> > >
> > > How to I translate these > 128 range characters? I'm
> > > wedged.
> >
> > When people do this, they are supposed to use the á,
> > à, and etc. Then, their browser does the correct display on
> > their OS.
>
> I didn't explain myself very well, sorry. Befow is a line
> from od -c on the index.html file. I'm not sure how this
> will be rendered in the different mailers, but in mutt with
> nvi, the "B" is surrounded by two iso8859-1 characters.
> In mozilla, same way. It is meant to be `B'. I've got over
> 28 files with what should be apostrophes and bcktcks rendered
> this way. putchar() outputs these characters in 8859 form
> --as characters. printf("0%o", ch); gives me their octal
> values. But trying to catch them with getchar() and it
> fails. gcc says that '\0325' is a dounle-wide.
>
> Maybe "od -c" is seeing this file as 16-bit characters...
>
>
> r h y m i n g =D4 B =D5 w o r d
Did you try -oc or -hc. I have one file that I translate from a Mac .doc=20
into html and his bullets translate into what vi sees as the Yen=20
symbol. I was always able to cut and paste into vi and then supply the=20
proper character. The problem is that the apostrophe is probably best=20
handled as "´". There isn't a comparable name for the grave. I=20
did the bullet translate with something like ":.,$s/=A5/\•/",=20
knowing that it would not appear as a bullet on some computers. I=20
followed the 80/20 rule and translated it for the PC's.
I have always used the table in Castro's book as the source. She created=20
a table that works between OSes. Some things such as your grave do not=20
translate from one system to another. I do not use those characters in=20
my html. The visual value is only as good as your worst mistake.=20
Something that doesn't display properly will be viewed as an error by=20
the viewer.
Kent
>
> gary
=2D-=20
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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