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Re: SynthLab (IIGS)
Jeff Blakeney asked:
>On 14 Feb 2002 18:00:18 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:
>
>>FWIW, opening the file in Microsoft Word and re-saving it will also
>>normalize the text file.
>
>Will that convert the IIgs bullets and curly quotes and other high
>ASCII characters to normal characters or will it just convert them to
>garbage characters?
>
>I would think it would just produce similar garbage characters like I
>saw viewing the file with Netscape since the value of the high ASCII
>characters on the IIgs depends on the font that is used.
I tried it, and the result was a clean text file. The spurious characters
had all been eliminated. I also find that Word is very flexible about
interpreting any EOL convention correctly, and normalizing it to the
PC-standard CR-LF without any prompting.
-michael
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