Subj : Were i can get source cod
To   : Jasen Betts
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Apr 05 2002 03:57 am

 ml> believe it or not, i've a similar operation in some REXX code that
 ml> is/was used for "converting" ISO-8859-1 to PC850... problem is
 ml> that when one is gathering web pages with wget, cleaning them and
 ml> posting them to echos, one can't tell what character set is used
 ml> unless there is something actually in the page data that states...

 JB> maybe you can do something with letter frequency analysis, (is
 JB> 8859-1 "latin-1")

i dunno... currently, the task is to grab the day's pages from a web site, 
strip the html, and post the resulting plaintext to an echo... i don't know 
what character set they are using on the site but i know that it is "standard 
american" stuff...

 JB> ISTR there's an bunch of blank chars in it, if they're used you can
 JB> be pretty sure it's not that set, in any case why convert? just
 JB> stick a chars kludge in the message & let someone else worry about
 JB> it.

that might be something i can do... i'll see what i can dig off that site...

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