From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Edward Dodge Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Way to screen out non-ASCII characters? Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:14:22 -0500 Organization: Confabulation Consulting Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060820293 6164 80.91.224.253 (14 Aug 2003 00:18:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 00:18:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 14 02:18:12 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19n5oi-0007q5-00 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 02:18:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19n5nb-0006Rw-S4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:17:03 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:y01iu3bkzt3No2SN8yr8Mq7YLDw= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 15 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:115876 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11795 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11795 Does anyone know if there is a mode or something that you can use in EMACS to screen out everything that *isn't* ASCII text? I am currently trying to get some old documents converted to a plain-old ASCII text file, and I don't have access to the original program to "save as text," nor do I want to write a script for this. I would assume that because EMACS can distinguish between different character-sets, maybe there is a way for EMACS to strain out the other garbage for me. -- Edward Dodge /GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin5.5) of 2002-10-11 on G3/