Smart quote character replacement for those with deficient sed-fu.

[smitty1e]

Use case:
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1. OSX 10.7, bunch of .tex files culled from a blog via some cruddy old Perl script.
..tex files are utf-8 encoded, which means the quotes and apostrophes drop out going through pdflatex.
2. Recommend using git to manage the .tex files, which are all in a /src directory in the project. If you're going to do batch edits, You Will Need tobranch, realize you gooned up, and roll back.
3. Understood, sed is the more classical tool here, except that I could notit to work in my OSX terminal.

Invocation:
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python charfix.py `ls src/*.tex`


charfix.py code:
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import fileinput

def process(line):
print line.replace( "’", "'" ).replace( "“", '"' ).replace( "”", '"' )

if __name__=="__main__":
for line in fileinput.input( inplace=1 ):
process(line)
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Discussion:
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Thank you, python!

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:39:42 -0700, smitty1e wrote:

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python charfix.py `ls src/*.tex`

charfix.py code:

Thanks for that. You might like to also publish it on the ActiveState
Python recipes site, where people are more likely to find it in the
future.

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/