Convert special character to text

[UCDI]

This is pretty nice, for a very specific situation.

I found convert to be insanely slow for what it is doing. If you are processing large data, I would do it in C or something... an easy way is to make your own ascii table 0-255 that remaps the offending characters to the desired result. Leave the normal letters and the rest of the table as it is. Then you just replace everything, need it or not..

super fast... all your C function does is..

for (x = 0; x < length; x++)
in[x] = table[x];

[ray.wurlod]

The rest of the world tends to use Unicode rather than ASCII. I don't think that C routine would work properly for multi-byte characters in input.