From: Michael Lommel Date: 2008-06-16T09:45:45+09:00 Subject: Ruby to convert US to UK punctuation/spelling? I have about a thousand multipage documents which I need to convert from US English and punctuation to UK English and punctuation. Before I start on a ruby script (I'm just learning ruby) wanted to see if anyone knows of existing tools to do this? I've also looked into a perl US->UK conversion tool but doesn't seem to exist. I'm starting with utf8 rtf documents which have printer's quotes (i.e., distinct left and right curly quotes) which were retained from an original conversion from MS Word docs. For my documents, converting from US to UK punctuation means double quotes become single quotes and some single quotes become double (apostrophes are retained and single quotes not inside double quotes would need to be retained); but in the conversion I would like to retain distinct left and right quotation marks. I'm thinking that the end documents should have all print typography (em-dashes, en-dashes, printer quotes) should be converted to character entities. If there is no existing script to do this (seems like a problem others must have faced before) any thoughts on the right approach/tools/code snippets? Many thanks Rubyist... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.