Ingo Schwarze writes:
> So here is a patch that makes putting UTF-8 characters into
> fortune/datfiles safe.
And here is a patch that retains the accents in the datfiles as UTF-8.
Index: Notes
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RCS file: /cvs/src/games/fortune/Notes,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -p -r1.3 Notes
--- Notes 28 Sep 2004 20:40:01 -0000 1.3
+++ Notes 12 Jul 2017 05:57:23 -0000
@@ -107,8 +107,7 @@ Limericks are indented as follows, all l
No more than debris,
If the input was short of exact.
-Accents precede the letter they are over, e.g., "`^He" for e with a grave
-accent. Underlining is done on a word-by-word basis, with the underlines
+Underlining is done on a word-by-word basis, with the underlines
preceding the word, e.g., "__^H^Hhi ____^H^H^H^Hthere".
No fortune should run beyond 72 characters on a single line without good
Index: datfiles/fortunes
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RCS file: /cvs/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -p -r1.49 fortunes
--- datfiles/fortunes 28 Dec 2015 12:32:12 -0000 1.49
+++ datfiles/fortunes 12 Jul 2017 05:57:24 -0000
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ test", said the outsider, "because I wan
Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into
the toaster -- "I wish the toaster to be happy too."
%
-A diva who specializes in risqu'e arias is an off-coloratura soprano ...
+A diva who specializes in risqué arias is an off-coloratura soprano ...
%
A doctor, an architect, and a computer scientist were arguing
about whose profession was the oldest. In the course of their
@@ -3620,8 +3620,8 @@ Error in operator: add beer
%
Es brilig war. Die schlichte Toven
Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
-Und aller-m"umsige Burggoven
- Dir mohmen R"ath ausgraben.
+Und aller-mümsige Burggoven
+ Dir mohmen Räth ausgraben.
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
%
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
@@ -4066,7 +4066,7 @@ Five is a sufficiently close approximati
-- Robert Firth
%
Flappity, floppity, flip
-The mouse on the m"obius strip;
+The mouse on the möbius strip;
The strip revolved,
The mouse dissolved
In a chronodimensional skip.
@@ -5245,12 +5245,12 @@ I need your help, I say 'tween sobs,
%
Here in my heart, I am Helen;
I'm Aspasia and Hero, at least.
-I'm Judith, and Jael, and Madame de Sta"el;
+I'm Judith, and Jael, and Madame de Staël;
I'm Salome, moon of the East.
Here in my soul I am Sappho;
Lady Hamilton am I, as well.
-In me R'ecamier vies with Kitty O'Shea,
+In me Récamier vies with Kitty O'Shea,
With Dido, and Eve, and poor nell.
I'm all of the glamorous ladies
@@ -5820,7 +5820,7 @@ streets and frighten the horses.
%
"I don't object to sex before marriage, but two minutes before?!?"
%
-"I don't think so," said Ren'e Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
+"I don't think so," said René Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
%
I don't think they could put him in a mental hospital. On the other
hand, if he were already in, I don't think they'd let him out.
@@ -7056,10 +7056,10 @@ Ignisecond, n.:
door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
%
-Il brilgue: les t^oves libricilleux
+Il brilgue: les tôves libricilleux
Se gyrent et frillant dans le guave,
-Enm^im'es sont les gougebosquex,
- Et le m^omerade horgrave.
+Enmîmés sont les gougebosquex,
+ Et le mômerade horgrave.
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
%
Iles's Law:
@@ -10423,7 +10423,7 @@ laughter, singing
The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of
laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for
hilarious civic functions, smashing the previous record set when Baron
-Hans Neizant B"ompzidaize was elected Landburgher of K"oln in 1653.
+Hans Neizant Bömpzidaize was elected Landburgher of Köln in 1653.
-- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
%
Portable, adj.:
@@ -11211,7 +11211,7 @@ pencil.
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made
of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts
is not necessarily science.
- -- Henri Poincair'e
+ -- Henri Poincairé
%
Science is what happens when preconception meets verification.
%
@@ -11760,7 +11760,7 @@ Spouse, n.:
wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.
%
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist
-drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to pur'ee of bat guano; and the
+drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to purée of bat guano; and the
greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll
take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!
-- Harlan Ellison
@@ -14330,7 +14330,7 @@ Today, of course, it is considered very
except in major motion pictures.
-- Dave Barry, "$#$%#^%!^%&@%@!"
%
-Toilet Toup'ee, n.:
+Toilet Toupée, n.:
Any shag carpet that causes the lid to become top-heavy, thus
creating endless annoyance to male users.
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
Index: datfiles/fortunes-o.real
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RCS file: /cvs/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -p -r1.12 fortunes-o.real
--- datfiles/fortunes-o.real 6 Feb 2015 20:00:55 -0000 1.12
+++ datfiles/fortunes-o.real 12 Jul 2017 05:57:24 -0000
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ only two went back to women.
%
If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream
and never be our destiny.
- -- Ren'e de Visme Williamson
+ -- René de Visme Williamson
%
If you can believe ten impossible things before breakfast, then you
should join
