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Re: Upper-ascii chars in subject line
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Date: 
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:43:25 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> Anyway, if you make it through all of that and come up with a pair of
> conversion functions, they'll need to be in Perl.  Even better would be
> something that reads a news article on STDIN and the transmogrified article
> to STDOUT, but halfway there is certainly OK.

Wow, that's pretty much easy then.

> p.s.  Don't forget to check CPAN (www.perl.com) first to make sure that
> someone hasn't already written a conversion module for this.  :)

Oh yeah, I'll check that first.  :-,

BTW, do you have a preference for which version of Perl?  I'm assuming
5.005.x would be fine.  I hope you aren't using Perl 4.x.  :-P

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
"I prefer the term para-mental.  It keeps me out of the loony bin."



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  Re: Upper-ascii chars in subject line
 
(...) Right -- 5, not 4. --Todd (27 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Allrighty then. :) Having a couple of conversion functions would be very helpful. (...) I -think- it's designed to be a one-to-one and invertible mapping from 8-bit ISO-8859-1 character strings to 7-bit ASCII character strings based entirely (...) (27 years ago, 17-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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