Re: Removing strange characters from mathgroup postings
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg118222] Re: Removing strange characters from mathgroup postings
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 07:52:03 -0400 (EDT)
It usually works to highlight the code (in Mathematica) and select (from the menus) Edit>Copy As>Plain Text. Sometimes Input Text works better. It's nice to have a way to recover if a poster didn't do that, but I will (generally) continue to skip posts like that. Bobby On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:35:05 -0500, Sjoerd C. de Vries <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- DrMajorBob at yahoo.com