Removing strange characters from mathgroup postings
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg118203] Removing strange characters from mathgroup postings
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:35:05 -0400 (EDT)
Oftentimes copying from Mathematica to the mathgroup goes awry and strange characters combinations that look like "=AE" and such are sprinkled throughout the text. If you ever encounter this situation (e.g., as in http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2009/Feb/msg00250.html) the following function will decode it (in all the cases that I tested). translateQuotedPrintable[str_String] := StringReplace[str, {"=" ~~ c1:HexadecimalCharacter~~c2:HexadecimalCharacter :> FromCharacterCode[FromDigits[c1 <> c2, 16], "Math1"],"=" ~~ EndOfLine -> ""}] Just paste the whole posting between quotes in translateQuotedPrintable[" ... "] and the post will be cleaned up. Cheers -- Sjoerd