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I haven't seen any package that do what you are looking for John. I've ran
into a big of a problem with this recently as I've been working with high
value ASCII too. About the only thing I think you'd be able to do is a list
of one to one conversions. The problem with this that i've run into is that
unix, windows and mac all have a different character map regaurding character
outside our standard alphanumerics.<br>
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What I'm trying to accomplish is remove the accent marks from
characters, essentially reducing everything down to 7-bit ASCII. Since
you're asking, the strings will become file names. I want to create a
subroutine that will convert a string to something valid for my file
system. While I could just eliminate the accented characters, it would
make sense to retain the letter part, and eliminate the additional
punctuation - no offense intended toward your "beautiful" (auf Deutsch)
example, Garrett.
I thought that this might have been common enough that someone had a
quick formula that could handle this. Perhaps not. I'll have to look for
an existing package or code something up from scratch...
Thanks,
John
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