There are several ways to do this depending on your exact requirements. To convert a block of bytes in a file without changing the length of the file use the Convert EBCDIC -> ASCII menu item on the Operations menu. Any invalid characters are converted to a zero byte. To convert a block of text ensuring that all converted bytes are valid ASCII you can use the clipboard commands.

There is a program called detex that can be used to strip away TeX and LaTeX commands, but it is not a great solution (it is designed to be a pre-processor for a spelling checker). Maybe the best solution is to generate a postscript file and then use ps2ascii to convert from postscript to ascii. From the man page: ps2ascii uses gs(1) to extract ASCII text from PostScript(tm) or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. See similar questions...

There are computer programs available which convert graphics files of a variety of formats (often GIF) to ASCII art. They go by names such as ascgif, gifa, gifscii, and gif2ascii. Do a Web search for any of these programs to find places where you can download them. Many think that you just put a GIF into a converter program and out comes a perfect ASCII pic. See similar questions...

Now here is one that i could go on for miles about since i am one of those you know who's that never bothered to learn howto WYSIWYG. Enough harping here is the lowdown. Say you had a text only document as below that you had never got around to converting over to html. For Example... Here is the best paragraph i could come up with under the circumstances. Seems that i am definately speechless and perhaps could even be accused of being the silent type. See similar questions...

Anyway, to get gsend and gsub to properly interpret non-ASCII text, you'll need to tell them what encoding to use for reading in and sending out. You can do this by setting the gale variable GALE_CHARSET (either in the environment, or one of the conf files) to an appropriate. You'll probably want either "LATIN1" or "UTF-8", but other encodings may be possible. Check the documentation for iconv on your system. (iconv -l lists available character sets. See similar questions...

Yes. The documentation is available in a number of different formats and compression schemes on the FreeBSD FTP site, in the /pub/FreeBSD/doc/ directory. The document's language and encoding. These are based on the locale names you will find under /usr/share/locale on your FreeBSD system. The current languages and encodings that we have for documentation are as follows: The document's format. See similar questions...

You can use RasterMaster to create an image file from text input. RasterMaster will automatically rasterize any ASCII file you specify as input. You can also control the font type and other page properties. Additionally, our annotation options permit the creation of text or graphic overlays to an underlying image. See similar questions...

Probably not, unless we're REALLY bored. The reason for this is that there is a program called Figlet which does that sort of thing automatically -- you type in 'Jane Smith', and you get back ___ __, ( / ( o _/_ / / __, _ _ '. _ _ , / /_ _/_(_/(_/ /_(/_ (___)/ / /_(_(__/ /_ // (/ in this and a whole lot of other fonts (lettering styles). The ASCII text-art produced by Figlet can be quite stunning, so it's best to try it first before asking for help from the newsgroup. See similar questions...

Help! I am trying to install a cgi script and keep getting a message like "Internal Server Error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request." Help! I am trying to install a cgi script and keep getting a message like "Premature end of script headers". What do I do about a ....malformed header from script. Bad header=No recipient address found.....error See similar questions...

Certainly not if it doesn't make sense. To take an extreme example, if you're working in Japanese or Arabic, or creating audio files, there is no point in trying to reproduce that in ASCII! Where the text can largely be expressed in ASCII, we do want to post an ASCII version, even if it is somewhat degraded compared to the original. However, we will post your file in as many open formats as you want to create, so that your original work is available for those who have the software to read it. See similar questions...

Either. There are two types, 8-bit and 16-bit descriptors. The 8-bit variant is used to store ASCII characters and raw binary data. The smallest data unit in these is a "narrow" 8 bit (1 byte) character. The 16-bit type is used to store Unicode characters; for these, the data unit is a "wide" 16-bit (2 byte) character. See similar questions...

First, make sure to ensure that your script has a correct coding line. Your script should start with something like: #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: latin-1 -*- or #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- or #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: ascii -*- Those lines must be the first two lines of your script. The coding must match the actual encoding of the file. See similar questions...

Pen2Text software, included within the NoteTaker software CD allows you to convert your handwritten notes into text. Using Microsoft Word XP or 2003 in conjunction with PC NoteTaker, anything you write is converted directly into text. Simply install the Microsoft Word handwriting recognition engine, run Pen2Text, and start writing. See similar questions...

ASCII is the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet. In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented with a 7-bit binary number (a string of seven 0s or 1s). 128 possible characters are defined. UNIX and DOS-based operating systems (except for Windows NT) use ASCII for text files. Windows NT uses a newer code, Unicode. IBM's System 390 servers use a proprietary 8-bit code called EBCDIC. See similar questions...

The following line added to the front of your Applesoft BASIC program will save it in a Text file named "LISTFILE". It works in DOS 3.3 or ProDOS. HOME:PRINT CHR$(4)"OPEN LISTFILE": PRINT CHR$(4)"WRITE LISTFILE": POKE 33,33: LIST 2,: PRINT CHR$(4)"CLOSE": END If you have a line 1 which you'd like to leave alone, you can enter the above at Line 0 and change LIST 2, to LIST 1,. See similar questions...

There are some cases where you do need to hold 8-bit text: MIME types, or binary data, for example. To do this, you should explicitly use the 8 bit descriptors: The amount of stack space on Symbian OS is pretty limited (the default is 8 KB). So you should avoid creating large stack-based descriptors when it is unnecessary to do so. Symbian OS sometimes makes it easy to transgress this rule, by defining a number of classes and typedefs that can be used inefficiently on the stack. See similar questions...

The OCR Component uses four neural network files to determine ASCII text. Each neural network represents one of the four CharacterSets (Upper Case, Lower Case, Numeric, and Special Characters). The OCR Component then uses heuristic techniques to differentiate between the four CharacterSets. You can tell the OCR Component which CharacterSets to use in its processing. For example, if you have a document that is all upper case, its recommended to only use the Upper Case CharacterSet. Our OCR. See similar questions...