Michael Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu> writes:

> Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > 
> > The Identity of the god R\355g
> > from the Eddic Poem R\355gs\376\372la
> > 
> > How would I go about cleaning this up and making it web-readable?
> > Ideally, I would like to do it such that the \nnn codes will display
> > the correct Icelandic characters in a browser, but I suspect that
> > transliterating to standard ASCII would be the most widely-compatible
> > way to go.
> 
> If you want to convert to 8-bit ASCII, this perl script will work:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> @lines = <STDIN>;
> foreach $line (@lines)
> {
>   system ("echo -en \'$line\'");
> }
> 
> However, if you want an HTML version, the best thing to do would be to
> convert the \nnn strings into the appropriate HTML entities.  \355 is
> the character `í', which is `&iacute;' in HTML, for example.  It would
> be easy to write an appropriate perl or sed script to fix it up.

Doh!  Right, this is the correct advice.  

Glad I managed to come up with *no* advice, instead of actually making
a *stupid* suggestion!
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