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Short: Entity-Codes, Alternatives, Color-Codes
Author: honma@thepentagon.com (Tamio Patrick Honma)
Uploader: honma@thepentagon.com (Tamio Patrick Honma)
Version: 1.8.1
Type: util/conv
Replaces: util/conv/Raw2Ent*
Files: Raw2Ent 1.8.1 (27.12.96)
Raw2Ent.ced 1.01 (26.12.96)
Raw2Ent.doc english documentation
Raw2Ent.dok german documentation
Raw2Ent.rexx 1.4.1 (14.07.96)
Raw2Ent.rexx.old 1.3.4 (01.11.96)
Raw2EntCheck 1.0 (12.12.96)
Raw2EntLogic.asc logical-structure documentation
Raw2EntMeta.asc meta-structure documentation
FAST INTRODUCTION: (see below for a larger introduction)
Raw2Ent can convert
8Bit-ASCII (ISO-8859-1 [Amiga]) -> 7Bit-ASCII with Character-Entity-Codes
example: "Hallöchen" -> "Hallöchen"
7Bit-ASCII with Entity-Codes -> 8Bit-ASCII (ISO-8859-1 [Amiga])
example: Hallöchen -> Hallöchen
8Bit-ASCII (ISO-8859-1 [Amiga]) -> 7Bit-ASCII with alternative characters
example: "Hallöchen" -> "Halloechen"
HTML32- or NETSCAPE-COLOR-NAMES -> HTML-Color-Codes
example: BGCOLOR="Red" -> BGCOLOR="#FF0000"
HTML-Color-Codes -> HTML32- or NETSCAPE-COLOR-NAMES
example: BGCOLOR="#FF0000" -> BGCOLOR="Red"
WHAT'S NEW SINCE LAST RELEASE?
Small Bug-Fix (1.8.1)
HTML 3.2 and Netscape Color-Code and Color-Name convertion included!
- Now Raw2Ent can be used as an HTML2COLORCODE- or COLORCODE2HTML- or
COLORCODE2NETSCAPE-Convertion-Tool. [I don't know any other program
including this feature]
NOTE: Since version 1.7:
"Cygnus ED"-Support included
NOTE: Since version 1.6.3:
The NOBACKUP-Feature will switch off the new backup-feature.
Now the destination- and source-file may have the same names!
NOTE: Since version 1.5 you can use Raw2Ent as an Ent2Raw!
NOTE: Since version 1.3 you can use Raw2Ent as a "Raw2Uml", which means
that the destination file will contain readable characters, words or
shortcuts. (i.e.: "ü" -> "ue", "£" -> "pound", "©" -> "(C)", etc.)
INTRODUCTION
Raw2Ent converts raw 8-Bit-ASCII-Text into 7-Bit-ASCII-Text with
entity-codes and reverse. The ASCII-Format is a standardized format for
information interchange, but it is only standardized seven-bit-wide, which
means that 128 codes are defined. One Byte consists of eight bits and can
represent 256 different bit combinations. Therefore the last 128 bit
combinations are defined for free use by any operation-system. The problem
is that accent-characters and other special characters are not standardized,
because they are defined in (guess where?! ;) ) the free part of ASCII by
the operation system developers.
The goal of the Wold Wide Web developers was that it could be used on every
important operation system. So it was clear that the ASCII-Based
HTML-Source-Code had to use the standardized seven-bit area of the
ASCII-Code. To represent accent-characters or other special characters in a
seven-bit-code, it was neccesary to invent something. And this was the
entity-code - a kind of escape-code. An entity-code consists of an
introducing "&" and a ";" at the end. Between these symbols is a
character-name the browser can interpret. It is a very hard and stupid work
to convert the ASCII-Text by hand. So just use Raw2Ent!
Raw2Ent produces real 7-Bit-ASCII-Code. All printable Amiga-characters in
the 8-bit-area will be converted into entity-codes, without any exception.
The use of names instead of code-numbers will make the entity-codes easier
to be read by humans. If no name was defined in the HTML 3.2 reference, the
code-number will be used.
You can use Raw2Ent also to check, wether your file contains pure seven-bit
codes or not. If not, Raw2Ent will present you the position of the
8-Bit-Characters in the text.
Raw2Ent can also handle color-codes and -names.
SEND COMMENTS TO:
Tamio Patrick Honma
eMail: honma@thepentagon.com
WWW: http://www.netforward.com/thepentagon/?honma
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