On 04/04/2008 10:47 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 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.
>
>

That seems to be in Microsoft code page 1250 (cp1250). Install 'recode'
and do this:

recode cp1250..ascii < email.txt

I hope that s! :-)



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