Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> writes: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:53:43PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> writes: > > > The Identity of the god R\355g > > > from the Eddic Poem R\355gs\376\372la > > > > That looks like 8-bit ascii, is all (being read through a 7-bit > > client). > > Oh, yeah... Octal. I assumed it was decimal, saw >255, and went for a > two-byte character set. > > > > How would I go about cleaning this up and making it web-readable? > > > > You can't reliably display such things on the web -- because the > > clients don't all support them. > > That's where the transliterating to standard english characters that I > mentioned earlier comes in. Is there anything out there already that will > do that automatically? Or do I have to spend some quality time with sed? I don't have something to suggest, anyway. The whole area of foreign characters is one I don't know enough about anyway, though. -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / dd-b at dd-b.net SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/