Strip high bit from text?

[David Kelly]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 04:03:46PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 
> > Already use procmail so adding an automatic filter should not be
> > difficult if only I can come up with on.
> > 
> > Tried "tr \240 ' ' < testfile | hd" and was not able to change the 0xa0
> > into anything. Have already spent much more time trying to make tr or
> > sed do the job than it would have taken to knock something out in C, but
> > I think there should be something laying around already in the base
> > system to perform this task.
> > 
> > Suggestions? Repair the email while procmail has it? Reconfigure mutt and/or vim?
> 
> If you've got procmail in the loop already, then calling iconv  as a filter like so:
> 
>    iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii
> 
> ...is likely to help.  Another choice would be to switch to using a
> MIME+Unicode/UTF-8 aware mail reader.

Am thinking I initially succumbed to the novice goof of not escaping the
backslash in "tr \240 ' ' < testfile | hd". Currently have this in my
procmailrc but haven't seen an example come through. For some reason
today my friend's Blackberry is sending 7bit rather than
quoted-printable. He doesn't know why. 

:0 fW
* ^X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit
| tr '\240' ' '
	:0 afW
	| formail -I "X-Converted: 0xA0 Stripper"

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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