ISO Latin -> HTML conversion

[Danny Yee]

I solved my problem.  The big performance hit was doing hundreds of
substitutions on every line.  But there are only a few diacritics in
the body of text I am converting (this is to produce html versions of
a collection of 500 book reviews, from ISO Latin originals), so I did
a search before doing the substitutions.

special = re.compile("[²-þ]")

if special.search(line):
	for pair in fix_list:
		line = re.sub(pair[0], pair[1], line)

And that sped up a complete rebuild of the site from ten minutes to one!

http://dannyreviews.com/

Danny.