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From: dorai@egeria.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram)
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Subject: [tex...] Re: Ascii German -> Diacritics
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Date: 22 Oct 90 05:09:24 GMT
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>If you're interested in a teensy program that converts "Ascii German"
>into "diacritical German", you might want to read this.  [...]

It ("most current version") is now available as the shar file
public/ascii2german.sh via anonymous ftp from titan.rice.edu.

Email me if (when?) you find bugs.  (If you think nobody should be
writing "ascii" German in the first place, I sympathize, but as the
great Huey Lewis once intoned, there is no perfect world anway.)

--d