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    From Michiel Van Der Vlist@1:2320/100 to Eugene Subbotin on Sat Oct 1 00:40:00 2016
    Hello Eugene,

    Friday September 30 2016 22:26, I wrote to you:

    Of course your script should look different since you are converting
    to CP866 and should take care of the characters not present in CP866. Maybe someting like:

    The below script BTW, is a real life script that I use to generate the ASCII version of my segment of the nodelist. Scroll down...

    s/--/(C)/g
    s/-</(R)/g
    s/|+/u/g
    s/|+/o/g
    s/||/o/g
    s/|n/a/g
    s/|2/e/g
    s/|-/e/g
    s/|?/e/g
    s/-|/ij/g
    s/-#/IJ/g
    s/|a/ae/g
    s/|f/ss/g
    s/-|/micro/g
    s/-C/pi/g
    s/+a/Pi/g
    s/-#/^2/g
    s/-|/^3/g
    s/|A/f/g
    s/-u/GPB/g
    s/-N/Yen/g
    s/re4/EUR/g
    s/o/o/g
    s/%/o/g
    s/-a/_/g

    When I make changes to my segment of the nodelist, I make the changes in the UTF-8 version only. I then run the script above to make an "ascified" version from it. That way I make sure that the UTF-8 version and the ASCII version are always synchronised.

    I don't trust myself to not make errors when having to make the same changes to

    two files. ;-)


    Cheers, Michiel

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  • From Michiel Van Der Vlist@1:2320/100 to All on Tue Oct 4 11:49:52 2016
    Hello All,

    Saturday October 01 2016 00:39, I wrote to Eugene Subbotin:

    The below script BTW, is a real life script that I use to generate the ASCII version of my segment of the nodelist. Scroll down...

    s/|+/u/g
    s/|+/o/g
    s/||/o/g
    [..]
    s/|o/o/g
    s/||/o/g

    I was asked to present the script with hex values for "funny characters", but that is too much work and too error prone. I have to do that manually.

    Instead I have made the script available for download and viewing.

    http://www.vlist.eu/downloads/fidolist/ascifi.sed

    If your browser supports UTF-8 (I don't know one that doesn't) you can see the script as I created it with winvi.


    Cheers, Michiel

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