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Re: Way to screen out non-ASCII characters?
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Joshua D. Guttman |
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Re: Way to screen out non-ASCII characters? |
Date: |
14 Aug 2003 19:32:40 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
Edward Dodge <someone@g3.com> writes:
> Does anyone know if there is a mode or something that you can use in
> EMACS to screen out everything that *isn't* ASCII text? I am
> currently trying to get some old documents converted to a plain-old
> ASCII text file, and I don't have access to the original program to
> "save as text," nor do I want to write a script for this.
>
If the documents are in MS Word format or something like that, then
you can use the undoc program, attached below.
undoc.el
Description: undoc.el -- Strip MS word formatting
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