restore accented characters

[eshellman]

The early gutenberg texts were produced in 7 bit ascii, so no unicode, no accented characters.

For example, https://github.com/GITenberg/Les-Mis-rables_135/master/book.asciidoc

We need to figure out a good way to re-accent the texts.

one way might be to produce a list of accented words by analyzing another version for example, https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/hugo/victor/lesmis/. short words like "à" could be combined with neighboring words.

@adius might have some ideas.

[adius]

But http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/135 seems to have accents. Or am I missing something?
Can you also please explain the relationship between gitenberg and gutenberg.org.
Is one a mirror of the other?

[eshellman]

Indeed! Last Updated: January 18, 2016. They're not synced.

[adius]

Well they definitely should be ^^ … or rather gutenberg.org should be a compiled version of gitenberg.
So how do you plan on porting differences?

[eshellman]

we need to trawl through the PG metadata to pull out updated files. Will add an issue.