Short: Manage 8-Bit-ASCII & HTML-/Entity-Codes
Author: honma@uni-duesseldorf.de (Tamio Patrick Honma)
Uploader: honma uni-duesseldorf de (Tamio Patrick Honma)
Type: util/conv
Version: 1.9a
Replaces: util/conv/Raw2Ent*
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
FUNCTIONS:
8-Bit-ASCII to 7-Bit-ASCII and inverse via
- Character-Entity-Codes used in HTML
- Character-Entity-Names used in HTML
- (or your own definitions)
8-Bit-ASCII to 7-Bit-ASCII via
- Umlaute
- (or your own definitions)
8-Bit-ASCII to 8-Bit-ASCII (via datafile) and inverse via
- MSDOS-ASCII
- Macintosh-ASCII
- (or your own definitions)
HTML-COLOR-CODES to HTML-COLOR-NAMES and inverse via
- HTML 3.2 COLOR-NAMES
- NETSCAPE COLOR-NAMES
- COLOR-CODES
This program is usefull for HTML-Developers and can also be used for
Internet-, Compuserve-, FIDO-, ZCONNECT-Newsgroups and eMails. It supports
the ability to convert 8Bit-characters into 7Bit-characters and reverse with
the help of character-entity-codes or -names or alternative characters.
Additionaly it can convert HTML 3.2- and Netscape-color-names into
color-codes and reverse.
This program is written in 100% assembly language for the Motorola MC68000.
It runs on every AmigaOS 2.0 and higher.
A GUI is not implemented at this moment, but an ARrexx-Script adds this
program into Cygnus ED's Interface.
Files: Raw2Ent 1.9s (13.03.98)
Raw2Ent.ced 1.01 (26.12.96)
Raw2Ent.doc english documentation
Raw2Ent.dok german documentation
Raw2Ent.rexx 1.4.1 (14.07.96)
Raw2Ent.rexx.old 1.3.4 (01.11.96)
Raw2EntCheck 1.0 (12.12.96)
Raw2EntHTMLColors.iff HTML 3.2-Color-Names, -Codes and -Colors
Raw2EntLogic.asc logical-structure documentation
Raw2EntMeta.asc meta-structure documentation
Raw2EntTables.doc code-tables documentation
Template.r2e a table-template for you
Umlaute.r2e the Umlaut-table as a template for you
MAC.r2e the Macintosh-ASCII-definition
MSDOS.r2e the MSDOS-ASCII-definition
WHAT'S NEW SINCE LAST RELEASE?
- Total Bug-Fix for 68000er computers!
- HTML-Documentation
WHAT'S NEW SINCE RELEASE 1.8?
- DATA-Mode allows you to define your own convertion-table
- convertion-tables included into package
- standard-output feature included. Now it's possible to
a) preview the output in the console
b) append the source to destination (with ">>" (see AmigaDOS))
c) dircetly print the output etc. (with ">prt:" ("))
FAST INTRODUCTION: (see below for a larger introduction)
Raw2Ent can convert
8Bit-ASCII (ISO-8859-1 [Amiga]) -> 7Bit-ASCII with Character-Entity-Codes
example: "Hallöchen" -> "Hallöchen"
7Bit-ASCII with Entity-Codes -> 8Bit-ASCII (ISO-8859-1 [Amiga])
example: Hallöchen -> Hallöchen
8Bit-ASCII (ISO-8859-1 [Amiga]) -> 7Bit-ASCII with alternative characters
example: "Hallöchen" -> "Halloechen"
HTML32- or NETSCAPE-COLOR-NAMES -> HTML-Color-Codes
example: BGCOLOR="Red" -> BGCOLOR="#FF0000"
HTML-Color-Codes -> HTML32- or NETSCAPE-COLOR-NAMES
example: BGCOLOR="#FF0000" -> BGCOLOR="Red"
Additionally you can define your own convertion-table. Tables for MSDOS-
and MACINTOSH-ASCII are included into the package.
INTRODUCTION
Raw2Ent converts raw 8-Bit-ASCII-Text into 7-Bit-ASCII-Text with
entity-codes and reverse. The ASCII-Format is a standardized format for
information interchange, but it is only standardized seven-bit-wide, which
means that 128 codes are defined. One Byte consists of eight bits and can
represent 256 different bit combinations. Therefore the last 128 bit
combinations are defined for free use by any operation-system. The problem
is that accent-characters and other special characters are not standardized,
because they are defined in (guess where?! ;) ) the free part of ASCII by
the operation system developers.
The goal of the Wold Wide Web developers was that it could be used on every
important operation system. So it was clear that the ASCII-Based
HTML-Source-Code had to use the standardized seven-bit area of the
ASCII-Code. To represent accent-characters or other special characters in a
seven-bit-code, it was neccesary to invent something. And this was the
entity-code - a kind of escape-code. An entity-code consists of an
introducing "&" and a ";" at the end. Between these symbols is a
character-name the browser can interpret. It is a very hard and stupid work
to convert the ASCII-Text by hand. So just use Raw2Ent!
Raw2Ent produces real 7-Bit-ASCII-Code. All printable Amiga-characters in
the 8-bit-area will be converted into entity-codes, without any exception.
The use of names instead of code-numbers will make the entity-codes easier
to be read by humans. If no name was defined in the HTML 3.2 reference, the
code-number will be used.
You can use Raw2Ent also to check, wether your file contains pure seven-bit
codes or not. If not, Raw2Ent will present you the position of the
8-Bit-Characters in the text.
Raw2Ent can also handle color-codes and -names.
// \\
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ist ja, daß viele Features des Amigas immer noch nicht von PC's erreicht
wurden. PC's konnten ja nur deshalb in den Multimedia-Bereich vordringen,
weil die DOSen mit immer mehr Power vollgestopft wurden und nicht mit
innovativen Technologien und Konzepten. Amigas sind nach wie vor die einzig
wahren Multimedia-Rechner. Und die fehlende Power wird Amiga International
hoffentlich bald beseitigen und vielleicht noch mehr innovative Konzepte
realisieren.
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Tamio Patrick Honma
eMail: honma@uni-duesseldorf.de
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