Converting from unicode to ASCII

Mark Wieder ahsoftware at sonic.net
Wed Sep 23 18:25:12 EDT 2020


On 9/22/20 11:10 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:

> There's more to it than that; the server runs a cron job hourly that 
> indexes all its files and creates AWS secure URLs for each. The app 
> downloads that lookup file on demand. When the user selects a name from 
> a list, the selection is munged to match the server name and the 
> download URL is obtained from the cron job's lookup file.


LOL. This is starting to remind me of Hal Draper's classic
"Ms Fnd in a Lbry". Been out of print since 1985, but online:

https://folk.universitetetioslo.no/knuthe/kuriosa/draper.pdf

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com




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