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1. Re: Forrin characters in web pages (Andrew McLean)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 16:53:01 +0100
From: Andrew McLean <am57762@gmail.com>
To: LUG <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Forrin characters in web pages
Message-ID: <555767DD.9010502@gmail.com>
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Thanks for the various comments. I am using UTF-8 (Mint 17.1) etc.
The real problem is that the same names appear on different web pages
sometimes with an accented character (e.g. c-cedilla in "Francois") and
sometimes with the equivalent non-accented character (plain 'c' in this
example). I need to find the same name in different pages where in the
raw HTML files it is spelt differently.
So it's not really about how the data is handled on my system, its the fact
that the same data (someone's name, in this case) is presented differently
on different web pages.
I have now written my own C code to find these chars and replace them
with the plain equivalent. Fiddly, and I should probably learn Perl...
Andrew




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