Arabic-L:GEN:OS X punctuation alternate strategy

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Date:  20 Jan 2003
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:OS X punctuation alternate strategy

You might try another approach, which might be faster and more
error-free, depending on what tools you have:

Bring up the document that contains the punctuation in an editor that
contains a search and replace function.
Replace the (offending) string with another.

Alternately, a small utility program can be created to do this
automatically.  In theory, such an application will:

open source_file (file containing bad punctuation)
create target_file (new file with corrected punctuation)
do until end of source_file

begin
    read source_file one character at a time
        if (bad sequence found) change to good sequence
    write character to target_file
end
close files


Also, bug the TextEdit people for a fix to the problem.

Waheed

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