non-ASCII characters in OED

[Mark Mandel]

**When I copy an etymology from OED Online and paste it into my notes,
nonstandard and accented characters come out as abbreviated symbolic names
in braces, like this

   medit{amac}r{imac}

for what I see as "meditari" with macrons over the third and fourth vowels.

I was going to write a Perl script to convert these to Unicode, but it
occurred to me to ask here if something like that already exists, or if
there's an easier way. I'm probably failing an RTFM roll, but wotthehell.

Mark Mandel

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