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Re: Textstream Write

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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote

| Ah.   I just realized:  You are not loading the page itself, but are 
letting
| IE do that for you.  Only after that you take a peek at the DOM.   In that
| case IE already has done its conversions (like from multi-byte to
| wide-character), so you can't save it /before/ giving it to IE (as its IE
| doing the loading).
|

Yes.

| But that just means that you have to work with whatever IE gives you when
| you do your "innerHTML" extraction of your DIV (which still is a perfect
| representation of what you saw in it!).    Not much choice there, right ?
| :-)
|

Right.

| But do yourself a favour and /convert/ those non-ANSI characters (instead 
of
| just dropping them).   If you don't you /will/ get into problems with 
pages
| that will have gotten a different meaning than the origional. (just 
imagine
| removing all end-of-line colons from a few lines of text ....)
|
  All bytes are ANSI characters. You don't seem to be distinguishing
between UTF-8 bytes and 2-byte unicode. There's no problem loading
and saving with things like curly quotes, though they can show corrupted.
The problem is only with HTML entities over 255. If you look at the
original page code you'll see after SHARE is &#9660;. IE is converting
that to the unicode character (or something more quirky). If "&#9660;"
is removed the page works fine. I'm not worried about losing upside
down triangle characters. :)

  But I am actually converting much of the UTF-8, as I mentioned above.
I'm converting curly quotes to ", etc. 

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Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-04-29 08:55 -0400
  Re: Textstream Write JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-04-30 17:45 +0700
    Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-04-30 13:21 +0200
  Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-04-30 08:51 -0400
    Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-04-30 18:22 +0200
      Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-04-30 13:01 -0400
        Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-04-30 21:37 +0200
          Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-04-30 17:06 -0400
            Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-05-01 10:01 +0200
              Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-05-01 08:37 -0400
                Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-05-01 16:00 +0200
                Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-05-01 16:12 +0200
                Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-05-01 10:47 -0400
                Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-05-01 19:09 +0200
  Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-05-04 15:26 -0400
    Re: Textstream Write JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-05-05 20:15 +0700
      Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-05-05 10:19 -0400

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