On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:39:55AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her
to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I
do no run OO) although I could get the jist. I then suggested that she
send plain text.
I don't run any locales but have LANG=C.
Her plain-text files are fine, except that apostrophies (singel-quote)
(') are replaced with "\222", opening quotes (") with "\223", and
closing quotes (") with "\224".
Other than writing a python script, can someone give me a simple command
to fix this so that it is not so distracting? Ideally, I'd put it into
an executable file and pipe the file through it on it's way to lpr.
e.g.
$ cool-writing.txt | antiAJ | lpr -Pepson
Here is a sample line from one of the files:
inside. I’m tired of the term “Best Friends” because what does it
I see in vim that \222 is ~R, \223 is ~S, and \224 is ~T. It is on the
printout (lpd/apsfilter/enscript) that the numbers come out.
Thanks,
Doug.