Re: continuation character
Re: continuation character
- Subject: Re: continuation character
- From: Richard 23 <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 06:59:32 -0800
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>> Note to group: How about using "[optn-L]" in place of the continuation
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>> character?
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> Let's just turn word wrap off in our mailers, wrap our comments, and
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>leave the script part unwrapped with the continuation characters removed
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>(at least until the list is fixed)? I note the list server does not add
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>line wraps.
I wrote a script which I run from osa menu which converts scripts in both
directions. Of course the server "improvements" changed how scripts are
mangled, now replacing some of those characters to other standard ASCII
characters, notably, the less than or equal symbol maps to greater than
(!)
and the continuation character maps to a comma. Ultra lame.
This makes conversion from email to script a lot more difficult. It's
easier to see in this table of significant lame mappings:
also rendered in html and with more detail at:
<
http://homepage.mac.com/richard23/docs/ConvertScript.html>
before after before after comment
------ ----- ------ ----- -------
173 2 '' '*' ascii 2 is fine
178 62 '' '>' horrible
179 4 '' '*' fine
194 44 opt-L ',' painful
199 43 '+' '+' no, please, god, no!
200 59 ';' ';' sucks!
215 87 'W' 'W' no dice
* Not a displayable character.
I'm waiting for a more suitable set of replacement characters
to be setup but this too could be about as productive a watching
the dusting the dog or shining my socks. You can use the current
version, easily modifying the continuation character to whatever
you want, as wel as any other values which seem appropriate.
The above link shows the current and (?) future mappings as well
as linking to the script's online readme document.
R23