Posted by mbstevens on 06/02/05 02:10

windandwaves wrote:
> Hi Folk
>
> As a web editor, I often get text delivered to me in, for example, a Word
> document with the request to place it on a page.
>
> The problem is that Word and its cousins use all sorts of funny characters
> that should not be used on the page (e.g. MS specific characters).
>
> I am about to make my own text converter that cleans up all this business,
> but I was wondering if there are any tools out there that prepare text for
> web.... something nice and simple.

The 'recode' command line tool is popular on 'nix
and an older version runs on Win:
http://recode.progiciels-bpi.ca/
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1345.html
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mbstevens
http://www.mbstevens.com/

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