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Removing strange characters from mathgroup postings

From	"Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	Removing strange characters from mathgroup postings
Date	2011-04-16 11:35 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
Message-ID	<iobuun$be3$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink)

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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

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