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Can you post (attach) the unclean file here?
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Can you post (attach) the unclean file here?

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Forgot to add - the characters are so off the wall, I've been using UNICODE to replaceAll on them. &nbsp;Some aren't even visible. &nbsp;
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Forgot to add - the characters are so off the wall, I've been using UNICODE to replaceAll on them.  Some aren't even visible.  

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I can't post the file. &nbsp;It won't always be the same file, it'll always be something different. &nbsp;
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I can't post the file.  It won't always be the same file, it'll always be something different.  

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The best thing to do would be to implement a FilterReader to clean out anything not ISO8859-1<br />
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<a href="http://www.technojeeves.com/joomla/index.php/free/48-iso8859-1" rel="ugc">http://www.technojeeves.com/joomla/index.php/free/48-iso8859-1</a>
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The best thing to do would be to implement a FilterReader to clean out anything not ISO8859-1

http://www.technojeeves.com/joomla/index.php/free/48-iso8859-1 [http://www.technojeeves.com/joomla/index.php/free/48-iso8859-1]

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I ended up just doing an approved list of characters and ignored UNICODE. &nbsp;Thanks for your responses.
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I ended up just doing an approved list of characters and ignored UNICODE.  Thanks for your responses.

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I would just use the ISO8859-1 charset
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:-)

I would just use the ISO8859-1 charset

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I'm having to convert an AFP (mainframe) file to a PDF document. &nbsp;I can do all that just fine, but there are plenty of garbage characters sprinkled throughout the file that I want to get rid of. &nbsp;I want a method that removes all invalid characters. &nbsp;The only characters I want is all the alphanumerics, cr &amp;&nbsp;lf, &nbsp;and the normal keyboard characters. &nbsp;I know how to do this painstakingly, but I bet one of you guys already code to do this. &nbsp;The method should only ALLOW characters from an approved list. &nbsp;Unless there's a better way, of course. &nbsp; 
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I'm having to convert an AFP (mainframe) file to a PDF document.  I can do all that just fine, but there are plenty of garbage characters sprinkled throughout the file that I want to get rid of.  I want a method that removes all invalid characters.  The only characters I want is all the alphanumerics, cr & lf,  and the normal keyboard characters.  I know how to do this painstakingly, but I bet one of you guys already code to do this.  The method should only ALLOW characters from an approved list.  Unless there's a better way, of course.   

Anyone have a good UNICODE filter class?

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