The third release candidate for Writeup 2.0 has been released. The binary can be downloaded from Google code Writeup binary v1.94.03. It will be made available on sourceforge in a few days along with a new shell script for invoking it that extracts multiple commands from the source file and runs them.

This is a test of various symbols and how they display in web fonts. First we have to test what fonts are installed on typical browsers.

Test of Fonts Installed

If not installed, will show as Webdings, (assuming Webdings is on your computer).

Very useful article:

I have written before about my admiration for Web typography, and in that article I touched on the fact that many “Web safe” fonts can’t be applied to Linux. Linux distributions each ship with their own font libraries, but I’d like to focus on similar typefaces you can use within a font-family to help make your design bulletproof.
Like Windows & OS X, Linux does type too

I’ve been a Linux user for some time now, and Linux is my platform of choice both at work and at home. My distribution of choice is Ubuntu not because it’s the most popular, but because I’ve tried a wide variety of Linux versions, and Ubuntu works the best for me. I say this because I’m going to focus on the fonts that ship by default with Ubuntu, so there may be some discrepancy among distributions.

more here

ASCII is not standardized for values over 127, but common implementations use ISO-8859-1.
the iconv and other utilities are described here Almost Everything You Need to Know about Charset Encoding, UTF-8, ISO-8859. Conversion and More

A quick and dirty translation of some characters into standard ASCII can be done with sed:
for ASCII table, see http://www.ascii-code.com/

sed -e 's%^~%$VER=1.45\n~%' \
-e 's%\x91%\x27%g' \
-e 's%\x92%\x27%g' \
-e 's%\x93%"%g' \
-e 's%\x94%"%g' \