Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> writes:

> I've got a document a (Windows-using) friend sent me, which I'm guessing
> was created using a unicode font.  It claims to be
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> but the actual text has sections which look like
> 
> The Identity of the god R\355g
> from the Eddic Poem R\355gs\376\372la

That looks like 8-bit ascii, is all (being read through a 7-bit
client).   

> How would I go about cleaning this up and making it web-readable?

You can't reliably display such things on the web -- because the
clients don't all support them.
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