Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:50 PM,  <VirginSnow at vfemail.net> wrote:
>> some combination of procmail, base64(1), demoroniser, "lynx -dump",
>
> Is that a real program name, "demoroniser"?  LOL....I'm having fun
> trying to imagine just what a program named "demoroniser" could do!

  "correct moronic and gratuitously incompatible HTML generated by
Microsoft applications"

http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/

  It converts certain "fancy" characters from the "Windows-1252"
encoding to ASCII equivalents.  It was created and named because
Microsoft Office likes to insert things like directional quotes and em
dashes from that Microsoft-invented character set into documents
automatically.  When such documents get transferred/exported to other
systems, they look like puke.

  The web page is entertaining.  It contains this fantastic quote:

"Rule of thumb--every time Microsoft use the word "smart," be on the
lookout for something dumb."

  Come to think of it, I don't think demoroniser actually handles
proper Unicode, so it wouldn't be sufficient for everything we're
talking about.

-- Ben