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    From Johnny Mnonymous@1:218/650 to All on Sat May 28 20:07:52 2022
    DoorMud has a Player Rankings "rank.lst"

    there's some ugly unwanted characters (not players =p ) in it. is there a linux cli filter that will remove high-end ascii?

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  • From Johnny Mnonymous@1:218/650 to Wilfred van Velzen on Sun May 29 15:11:55 2022
    On 29 May 2022, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...

    there's some ugly unwanted characters (not players =p ) in it. is the linux cli filter that will remove high-end ascii?

    Sure. Somthing like:

    cat in.txt | tr -d '\200-\377' >out.txt

    thanks. it didn't work but it's defitely pointed me in the right direction.

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  • From Travis Mehrer@1:134/303 to Johnny Mnonymous on Mon May 30 09:34:37 2022
    DoorMud has a Player Rankings "rank.lst"

    there's some ugly unwanted characters (not players =p ) in it. is there
    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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