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On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
> I'm open to suggestions. Currently I'm saving as .rtf, opening in
> Word, and saving as Text with Layout (*.ans).
If you program at all, it is pretty easy to write a checker program.
Read the file, check every character, print an error message if
you find a bad one, giving the line number.
C has a macro isascii() for the test; I'd imagine many other languages
have something similar. Failing that, ASCII is a 7-bit code, so the top
bit of every byte should be zero; that is easy to test.
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