[ale] funky characters

[Geoffrey]

Fletch wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "esoteric" == esoteric  <Geoffrey> writes:
> 
>     esoteric> I'm attempting to replace some funky characters that
>     esoteric> were left in a text document when it was converted from
>     esoteric> Word.  In place of apostrophes, there is (in vi) ~R
>     esoteric> which vi sees as one character.  If I 'cat -evt file'
>     esoteric> it's listed as: M-^R
> 
>         You want the `demoroniser' to remove moronic M$ ASCII chars.
> 
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/

Downloaded, attempted to make a dir for it and noted it already existed,
because I had already downloaded it before. (duh).

Did the trick though.  Thanks for the memory jogger...

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com

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