Filter for special characters?
Brett Charbeneau <[email protected]>
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I would like to post a question as well as offer a solution to a particular problem we experience with majordomo every few weeks. I have a user who moderates a closed list and frequently makes posts that contain "special" characters, for lack of a better term, imbedded in her text. Here are two examples: "Paxton's 40-year career. A two-time Grammy® nominee, he has received the" "Tafelmusik of Toronto and Concerto Köln in addition to other early and" Please note the "®" and "ö" in these two lines. These are seen as control characters by the Majordomo program and cause the program to behave in unpredictable ways. Posts that contain characters like this will not distribute nor bounce. QUESTION: is there a filter of some sort for MJ that will remove and or escape these sorts of characters so as to not offend/confuse? WORKAROUND: I've discovered if you cut and paste text like this into MS Word (not WordPad) and do a "Save As", selecting "MS-DOS Text (*.txt) as the "Save as type:" that these sorts of special characters will be removed in that saved file. If you then pull that file up into Word or someother text editor and cut and past into an email client things move ahead as expected. -- ******************************************************************** Brett Charbeneau Network Administrator Williamsburg Regional Library 7770 Croaker Road Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064 (757)259-4044 www.wrl.org (757)259-4079 (fax) [email protected] ********************************************************************