demoroniser
Demoroniser is a Perl script which attempts to fix the gratuitously incompatible HTML generated by Microsoft applications. Many Microsoft programs use an 'enhanced' version of Latin-1 with extra characters like quotation marks and dashes. Sometimes people paste these characters into supposedly ASCII or Latin-1 web pages, resulting in pages that don't display properly on non-MS platforms. Demoroniser replaces these MS characters with standard ASCII equivalents. It also fixes up wrongly nested tags generated by HTML export in some MS applications.
| Tags | Internet Web Text Processing Filters Markup HTML/XHTML |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Public Domain |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 31 Aug 2001 21:00
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: See also...
> Is there a "demoroniser"
> available for straight ASCII?
GNU recode should do it: 'recode windows-1257..ASCII'. That might change the line endings too though.
Re: See also...
>
> If you want to tidy up Microsoft HTML,
> see also HTML Tidy. If you use
> www_proxy, you can configure it to use
> demoroniser as a filter on all pages.
>
>
> (It would be handy if the project
> record included a section for 'related
> projects', but there doesn't seem to be
> one.)
>
Is there a "demoroniser" available for straight ASCII? I know it would be simple enough to write one, but I want something I can give to the guy at the other end of a feed without doing his work for him.
Re: Why was this posted now ?
Why is this program any less newsworthy than the latest .0001 version increment to one of the projects that seem to clog the front page several days in a row? I go to Freshmeat to find out about software; I'm not biased against software that happens to have been written a little while ago. If there is some project which is old but I didn't know about it before, that's just as useful as a new project I wasn't aware of.
I can understand wanting to keep the front page uncluttered, and I'm not suggesting a hundred backdated news announcements for the entire 2.1.x Linux kernel series :-). But if it's okay for some projects to get new announcements week after week, surely it's okay to have one single news item for something like demoroniser.
Re: Why was this posted now ?
> I mean, this is a 1998 program, that's
> the date on the web page, man pages and
> even the source code.
Sorry about that. We try not to announce "news" that's old, but this
one slipped through.
Re: Why was this posted now ?
Please note I do like to see more programs registered at fm, even if they are old and known, like this one ;)