Hello all,

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

Thanks,

Doug.


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Use dos2unix.

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On 04/04/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> 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
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug.
>
>
>
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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.


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On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:42:28PM +0100, Andr? C?sar de S? wrote:

> On 04/04/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > 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

>> Use dos2unix.

Doesn't that just change CR/LF?

Doug.


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> 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

I use recode.

cp cool-writing.txt tmp.txt

recode dos..latin1 tmp.txt

Check if it works. Recode is in the official Debian repository.

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Douglas writes:
> 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)

Try Abiword.
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On 2008-04-04 17:57 +0200, John Hasler wrote:

> Douglas writes:
>> 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)
>
> Try Abiword.

s/b/nt/ :-)

No complex library dependencies, no X necessary, startup time close to
zero, and the text from your M$ document is displayed just fine.
Antiword can also generate Postscript or HTML output.

Sven


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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> 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

Use tr? It's a very simple program meant for exactly this kind of task.
The first argument is the list of characters to replace, and the second
is the list of characters (in order) to replace them with.

tr "\222\223\224" \'\"\" < cool-writing.txt | lpr -Pepson

N.B. the ' and " characters need to be escaped from the shell in the
second argument on the command line above.

tr is even in "coreutils" so you don't have to install anything extra.

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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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On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:33:27PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-04-04 17:57 +0200, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Douglas writes:
> >> 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)
> >
> > Try Abiword.
>
> s/b/nt/ :-)
>
> No complex library dependencies, no X necessary, startup time close to
> zero, and the text from your M$ document is displayed just fine.
> Antiword can also generate Postscript or HTML output.

I know about antiword and have it. It still misses some things which is
why I asked her to send plain text.

Doug.


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On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:29:44PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> 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.

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

Thanks, I had an "ambiguous" error re linefeeds and just tried the other
cp's and found that cp1258 works fine.

thanks.

doug.


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