Subj : Re: remove characters/doormud scores
To : Johnny Mnonymous
From : Travis Mehrer
Date : Mon May 30 2022 09:34 am
JM> DoorMud has a Player Rankings "rank.lst"
JM>
JM> there's some ugly unwanted characters (not players =p ) in it. is there
JM> a linux cli filter that will remove high-end ascii?
While working on a mod for Mystic recently I used the "unidecode" module for Python to do something just like this. It'll take unicode characters and replace them with a close cp437 character. Even with little or no Python knowledge this should be reasonably simple.
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