[duxhelp] Re: Plaguing overworked programmers with inane requests.
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- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:14:36 -0400
Jack
I think I may have a solution for part of that, but its Friday afternoon, and I
am sure I am missing something from what seems to me an obvious solution.
But also, perhaps we should take it off the beta list since I have a suggestion
for conversion of your html files rather than anything to do with Duxbury.
sean
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Sullivan [mailto:peter@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: June 4, 2004 2:02 PM
> To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxhelp] Re: Plaguing overworked programmers with inane
> requests.
>
>
> Jack,
>
> I really don't have any idea what you're asking about.
>
> - Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jack Maartman
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 2:55 PM
> To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxhelp] Plaguing overworked programmers with inane
> requests.
>
> I really do want my left-handed giggle sprocket encoding. I
> am trying to
> import Unicode text to save it into languages that don't play
> by the rules,
> E.G. Russian, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, circumventing any
> MSWord add-ons. I
> think I've done this pretty successfully with some
> translations of a text on
> the Unicode Consortiums web-site. I say I think, because the
> braille feels
> as if it is okay, and I can always inventory with the
> displayed characters
> with the Duscii tables.
>
> I am trying, among other things to come up with a rough and ready
> translation of the Koran, and polytonic Greek versions of the
> Iliad and
> Odyssey, the latter not likely to translate. However, the
> text is in html
> entity refs, and apart from manually converting these into
> the relevnt UTF-8
> characters,I know of no way to do this under Win98. If it
> can be done under
> XP, I'll either wait till I win the lottery, or write a macro
> for my Dos
> Text editor, to do a series of search and replaces.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas.
>
> Jack
>
>
>
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