On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:19:50 +0000
Hugo Mills <hugo@???> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 05:16:42PM +0000, John Lewis wrote:
> > One bit of the Kingsclere History website is a list of surnames
> > people have an interest in and contact addresses for other people
> > to use but the email addresses are encrypted.
> >
> > part of the html code looks like this:
> >
> > <td><p class="bodytext">HAYWARD</td>
> > <td><p class="bodytext"><a
> > href="mailto:joysgenea@shaw.ca.">Joy French</a><br><a
> > href="mailto:BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk">Barbara Mallyon</a></td>
> >
> > I don't know what software was used to set it up, probably some
> > windows based gui website design tool.
> >
> > Does anyone have a clue as to how I can decode the page so I can
> > edit? it. The original webmaster is unavailable for the moment so
> > cannot ask what software he used.
>
> They're ASCII codes (actually, probably UTF-8, but since there's
> nothing over 127, it's much the same thing). You can either decode
> manually (for small quantities), or view in a web browser and
> cut-and-paste the resulting characters.
I suspected they might be ascii codes but haven't yet looked for a
'translator' as have had other things to do this evening.
Will try your 'sed' option. As for looking at the page in a web browser
it look perfectly normal other than no email addresses show, but
clicking on a name brings up the email client.
--
John Lewis
using Debian sid
