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Manga Shoggoth

Member Since: Fri Jan 02, 2004
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HH

Subj: Out of character? With a cast of thousands?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 at 05:29:18 am EST (Viewed 820 times)
Reply Subj: Out of character
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 at 07:04:55 pm EST (Viewed 1 times)



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    And then I discovered something even weirder. Take one of the pages that doesn't have a character conversion problem but does have the white instead of black background problem. Say http://www.chillwater.org.uk/HH/hhstories/untold%20tales%20of%20ll%20341.htm If I manually correct the html file using Notepad ([body] to [body bgcolor="#000000" text="#ffffff" link="lightblue" vlink="white" alink="gray"]) the thing is fixed nicely. If I try a batch text program it fixes the background but actually replicates the character conversion problem of the other files!


Interesting - I'll try and look at that this afternoon (going out to lunch shortly...)


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    Do these programs work on batches of files or would I have to do each one seperately?


I can't speak for the program you are using to do bulk replacements, but PFE and FrHed are editors and will pretty much be one file at a time. However, you only need to use them to identify the strings, not to make the actual changes.





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