From: "Steven A. DuChene" <
linux-clusters@mindspring.com>
> It is filled with a lot of un-needed style and formating tags
> as well as all kinds of stupid extra characters due to some MS
> "standard" character formatting stuff. Things like braking lines
> in the middle of words and then adding an equal sign at the end
> of the broken line or replacing equal signs in the html code with
> "=3D'
That's not HTML. That's quoted-printable encoding. The mail client
should've automatically converted that to UTF-8 or whatever when
it saved the file. If you have MIME::QuotedPrint installed, you
can decode that with a Perl one-liner and see if it looks any better.
> Does anyone know of a tool that will clean this crappy excuse for
> html code up into something more standard?
"Demoroniser" is probably not what you want. I've seen a few things
like that over the years, and have gotten rid of most of the junk
with a bunch of regular expressions. Without a look at what the
mangled HTML looks like, I couldn't give you a list of sed commands
to feed this data through.
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