XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   R.Wieser wrote:   
   >>>> The whole point of providing open source code is so everyone improves   
   >>>> it.   
   >>>   
   >>> No.  So that anyone *can* improve on it.   
   >>   
   >> And if they believe it's worth their time.   
   >   
   > And they are absolutily allowed to keep such improvements to themselves.   
   > There is no rule, implied or otherwise, that they *have* to share.   
      
   I appreciate all your inputs, and the inputs from Chris & others.   
      
   The best I can do is share "my code" so that everyone can benefit.   
      
   If anyone has a *better* way to "clean" funky text so that it's   
   consistently ASCII, then please provide that solution so that everyone on   
   the ng benefits from your acumen, experience, and helpful intent.   
      
   Including me.   
   Since I use that conversion process a hundred times every day.   
      
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