Re: Digest for textwrangler@googlegroups.com - 3 Messages in 1 Topic

[andy turnbull]

I get a lot of question marks too, when I convert from some web files to twrangler, but I didn't update twrangler for a long time. Don't know where the question marks come from, but ...

FYI -- I don't know anything about 'convert to ascii.' I just copy and paste.

I have a bit of an advantage here, because I discovered long ago that computers are made by evil demons, and the only thing that surprises me is when they work right.

andy t

On 2013-04-25, at 12:19 AM, textwr...@googlegroups.com wrote:

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• Please bring back the Convert to ASCII command [3 Updates]

 Please bring back the Convert to ASCII command

Usually Befuddled <hut6....@gmail.com> Apr 24 09:24AM -0700  

On Monday, March 18, 2013 2:56:00 PM UTC-4, Robert Sedor wrote:
 
> Please restore the Convert to ASCII command in the next update.
 
YES! I succumbed to the siren call of autoupdate, and it is GONE, just
like the Lindberg baby.
 
I have a copy of 3.5.3 on another machine and I must now move it over.....

 

Thomas Fischer <fisch...@aon.at> Apr 24 06:59PM +0200  

Hello,
 
could anybody of those who want the "Convert to ASCII command" back please elaborate on what it is that they need it for that can't be accomplished using "Zap Gremlins…"?
 
Best
Thomas
 
 
Am 24.04.2013 um 18:24 schrieb Usually Befuddled:
 

 

Usually Befuddled <hut6....@gmail.com> Apr 24 12:48PM -0700  


> could anybody of those who want the "Convert to ASCII command" back please
> elaborate on what it is that they need it for that can't be accomplished
> using "Zap Gremlins…"?
 
Here is what I get when I scrape text from the Economist<http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21576377-americas-supreme-court-rule-patenting-genes-natural-justice>
:
 
*But the court is unlikely to base its ruling on such airy ethical
principles. The legal debate revolves not around the two genes? *
*humanness, but their naturalness?for the judges are being asked to rule
whether Myriad?s genes count as a ?product of nature?. If they *
*do, then under American law they cannot be patented.*
*...*
*But the court is unlikely to base its ruling on such airy ethical
principles. The legal debate revolves not around the two genes? *
*humanness, but their naturalness?for the judges are being asked to rule
whether Myriad?s genes count as a ?product of nature?. If they *
*do, then under American law they cannot be patented*.
 
 
What does Zap do on the above?

 

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[Tom Humiston]

I have a bit of an advantage here, because I discovered long ago that computers are made by evil demons, and the only thing that surprises me is when they work right.

Yep. For insight into their secret demonic thought process, read Alan Cooper's book, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum.

- Tom