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?

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