Rug Rat wrote to All <=-

Hi Brent,

Your latest Newsline post has "garbage" in it, mainly characters that are formatted in Windows that show up as junk in other codepages. Could you run your text through a converter first to make it pure ASCII?

Here's a very simple PowerShell-based conversion (wrapped to fit; should be
one single line:

Get-Content input.txt -Encoding Windows1252 |
Set-Content output.txt -Encoding Ascii

If you want to use it in CMD.EXE:

powershell -Command "Get-Content input.txt -Encoding Windows1252 |
Set-Content output.txt -Encoding Ascii"

Doing so would be much easier for the rest of us to read those posts.

Thanks and 73,
Sean


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Re: Re: ARNewsline Report 2528 10 APR 2026
By: Sean Dennis to Rug Rat on Sat Apr 11 2026 16:21:33

Your latest Newsline post has "garbage" in it, mainly characters that are formatted in Windows that show up as junk in other codepages.

I read the transcript the other day and it was perfectly fine on my end. I'm using SyncTerm with CP437.
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Hi Brent,

Your latest Newsline post has "garbage" in it, mainly characters that are formatted in Windows that show up as junk in other codepages. Could you run your text through a converter first to make it pure ASCII?

Here's a very simple PowerShell-based conversion (wrapped to fit; should be one single line:

Get-Content input.txt -Encoding Windows1252 |
Set-Content output.txt -Encoding Ascii

If you want to use it in CMD.EXE:

powershell -Command "Get-Content input.txt -Encoding Windows1252 |
Set-Content output.txt -Encoding Ascii"

Doing so would be much easier for the rest of us to read those posts.

Thanks and 73,
Sean

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Sean, Not for sure Brent may be using an Amiga instead of Win type computer(s).

The only thing I see on this android phone to comment about is that I sometimes see a large PLUS SIGN instead of the Call Area when a Call Sign is shown in the text he forwards for us to read

Never posted about this before.

If You Moderete this echo I am in big trouble.
Ed
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The .txt was downloaded from a WIndows PC, and copied from NOTEPAD and pasted to the C-Net Amiga BBS using ZOCTerm.

I will be late posting this week due to vacation, but when I do I will resave the file in ANSI format in Notepad before posting.....

Out of all the weeks I have posted over the last year, strange that it just came up.

Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks)
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Mortar M. wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I read the transcript the other day and it was perfectly fine on my
end. I'm using SyncTerm with CP437.

Interesting. Still, anything I post programmatically I convert
it to pure ASCII before it gets posted.

Oh well, not a big deal, just thought I'd say something.

-- Sean

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Ed Vance wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

The only thing I see on this android phone to comment about is that I sometimes
see a large PLUS SIGN instead of the Call Area when a Call Sign is
shown in the
text he forwards for us to read

I don't see a plus sign but I see other "garbage" in there randomly.

So I'm not the only one saeeing this.

If You Moderete this echo I am in big trouble.

I am the moderator but no one's in trouble...

-- Sean

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Rug Rat wrote to Ed Vance <=-

The .txt was downloaded from a WIndows PC, and copied from NOTEPAD and pasted to the C-Net Amiga BBS using ZOCTerm.

That'll do it. LOL

Out of all the weeks I have posted over the last year, strange that it just came up.

Has anything changed in your toolset doing this?

I still appreciate you posting the ARN just the same.

73 DE KS4TD,
Sean

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Don't mind you pointing it out at all....

This week I saved notepad file as ANSI, if I see the issue again I will use your .ps script and see if I can get ZOCTerm to process it after downloading (It does support REXX scripting), so might make a good technical blog anyway.

C-Net also supports post upload processing, so I might be able to find a utility to do it on the BBS side as well.

Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks)
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I am the moderator but no one's in trouble...

Water is heavier than butane because butane is a lighter fluid.

That is funny...shared with The Pun In Life Net group on Facebook.

Along that line...

If you smoke during sex, you're doing it too fast. <G>

Daryl

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