Normalize corpus to pure ASCII (transliterate non-ASCII, drop emoji/control bytes)

Transliterates box-drawing/arrows/accents/Cyrillic/smart-punct to ASCII, removes emoji + variation selectors + raw control bytes. 91 source files cleaned, all.txt regenerated. Verified: 0 non-ASCII bytes remain across all 1031 content files. Keeps tokenizer vocab clean.

README.md

@@ -28,6 +28,20 @@ This is the all files for training language models. `all.txt` is a single concat
 - **Excluded:** this `README.md`, `.gitattributes`, and internal Hugging Face cache/metadata artifacts (not corpus content)
 - **Usage:** point your tokenizer/trainer directly at `all.txt` for a single-stream security-text corpus
 
+## ASCII-only normalization
+
+The entire corpus has been normalized to **pure 7-bit ASCII** so it does not pollute a tokenizer's vocabulary with stray Unicode. This applies to every source file and to `all.txt`.
+
+- Non-ASCII characters were **transliterated** to readable ASCII equivalents, not deleted:
+  - Box-drawing / debugger line art (`─ │ ┐ ├ ╡ ▒ …` from GDB/`gef` output) → `- | + + + : …`
+  - Arrows (`→ ← ↑ ↓ ➤`) → `-> <- ^ v >`
+  - Accented Latin (`í ó ç é …`) → base letters (`i o c e …`)
+  - Cyrillic letters (in proper names) → Latin transliteration
+  - Smart quotes & dashes (`' ' " " – — …`) → `' ' " " - - ...`
+- **Removed entirely:** emoji (e.g. `❤ 👉 👌 😩`), variation/zero-width selectors, BOM, and raw control bytes (`0x00`–`0x1F` except tab/newline/CR)
+- Result: **0 non-ASCII or control characters remain** across all 1,031 content files — every byte is `0x20`–`0x7E` or `\t` `\n` `\r`, matching the pure-ASCII style of the original Phrack philes
+
+
 ## Contents
 
 ### Phrack Magazine (`phrack/`)

all.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:53966916c306f05a5b7a3f904ad24d016f88b72bc091193a21b0170b600b0229
-size 57904797
+oid sha256:0771cd0267ed02d6f08befb7934917bdfb5a14bafda066a809c8b091a8c5325c
+size 57894745

phrack/issue17/9.txt

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ EVEN MORE REWARDING THAN GETTING HARDCOPY DOCUMENTS.
         *SIGNIFICANT & IMPORTANT INFORMATION IS MORE EASILY LOCATED IN DATA
          TRANSMISSIONS THAN IN MASSES OF FILES OR PHONE CALLS.
         *TRANSMITTED DATA IS PRESUMED TRUE, AND WHEN ALTERATION IS DISCOVERED,
-         IT'S READILY BLAMED ON THE EQUIPMENT.
+         IT'S READILY BLAMED ON THE EQUIPMENT.
         *THE LAWS CONCERNING TAPS ON UNCLASSIFIED AND NON-FINANCIAL COMPUTER
          DATA ARE EITHER QUITE LACKING OR ABJECTLY STUPID.
 

phrack/issue18/4.txt

@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ IBM, CDC, Univac, Honeywell and ICL remote job entry terminals over
 synchronous communication lines.  PRIME's RJE provides the same communications
 and peripheral support as the RJE terminals they emulate, appearing to the
 host processor to be those terminals.  All PRIME  RJE products provide three
-unique benefits:
+unique benefits:
 
         * PRIME RJE is designed to communicate with multiple
           remote sites simultaneously.

phrack/issue20/6.txt

@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ quarter the way it is... We shall see...
 
 
 -Hatter
-
+
 
 
 33/100: Say that again...?

phrack/issue20/7.txt

@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ manner of sending) or is it just updates to the way it's wired up?  McBlah
 
 
 
-51/70: CCS
+51/70: CCS
 Name: Mad Hatter 51
 Date: 6:02 pm  Fri May 15, 1987
 

phrack/issue22/4.txt

@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@
                +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
                |              The LOD/H Presents               |
 ++++++++++++++++                                               ++++++++++++++++
-                  A Novice's Guide to Hacking- 1989 edition                 /
-                  =========================================                /
-                                     by                                   /
-                                 The Mentor                              /
-                       Legion of Doom/Legion of Hackers                 /
-                                                                       /
-                               December, 1988                         /
-                          Merry Christmas Everyone!                  /
-         +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++/
+                  A Novice's Guide to Hacking- 1989 edition                 /
+                  =========================================                /
+                                     by                                   /
+                                 The Mentor                              /
+                       Legion of Doom/Legion of Hackers                 /
+                                                                       /
+                               December, 1988                         /
+                          Merry Christmas Everyone!                  /
+         +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++/
 
 
 The author hereby grants permission to reproduce, redistribute, or include this
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ systems by typing 'C' for connect and then the Network User Address (NUA) of
 the system you want to go to.
 
 An NUA takes the form of   031103130002520
-                           ___/___/___/
+                           ___/___/___/
                              |    |    |
                              |    |    |____ network address
                              |    |_________ area prefix

phrack/issue22/5.txt

@@ -2,18 +2,18 @@
 
                       Volume Two, Issue 22, File 5 of 12
 
-         /|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|
-         |/                                                      |/
-         /|           An Indepth Guide In Hacking UNIX           /|
-         |/                          and                         |/
-         /|        The Concept Of Basic Networking Utility       /|
-         |/                                                      |/
-         /|                     By Red Knight                    /|
-         |/                                                      |/
-         /|                     Member of the                    /|
-         |/         Phreakers/Hackers Underground Network        |/
-         /|                                                      /|
-         |/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/
+         /|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|
+         |/                                                      |/
+         /|           An Indepth Guide In Hacking UNIX           /|
+         |/                          and                         |/
+         /|        The Concept Of Basic Networking Utility       /|
+         |/                                                      |/
+         /|                     By Red Knight                    /|
+         |/                                                      |/
+         /|                     Member of the                    /|
+         |/         Phreakers/Hackers Underground Network        |/
+         /|                                                      /|
+         |/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/
 
 Brief History On UNIX
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

phrack/issue26/11.txt

@@ -307,11 +307,11 @@ PWN Quicknotes
      was given all his computer equipment back as part of the plea bargain --
      minus any materials considered to be "ill gotten" gains.
 _______________________________________________________________________________
-! ***
+! ***
 
 
 1:30:22 p.m.    ARE YOU STILL THERE ?
-! ***
+! ***
 
 
 1:35:22 p.m.    RESPOND OR BE LOGGED OFF
@@ -895,11 +895,11 @@ PWN Quicknotes
      was given all his computer equipment back as part of the plea bargain --
      minus any materials considered to be "ill gotten" gains.
 _______________________________________________________________________________
-! ***
+! ***
 
 
 1:30:22 p.m.    ARE YOU STILL THERE ?
-! ***
+! ***
 
 
 1:35:22 p.m.    RESPOND OR BE LOGGED OFF

phrack/issue27/2.txt

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Function Type:  N/A
 
 #CP : This command is used to execute a CP Command while in a virtual machine
 ~~~   command environment without first signaling attention to get to the CP
-command environment which means that when typing P <command> to perform a CP
+command environment which means that when typing P <command> to perform a CP
 operation, CP directly receives the command whereas CP <command> merely queues
 the command from CP.
 Privilege Class:  ANY

phrack/issue27/8.txt

@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ Have fun and stay out of trouble.
         -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=  Cut here -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 ! /bin/sh
 #Mfakemail - A shell script to send fakemail.
-#M##M#Met up the path.
+#M##M#Met up the path.
 PATH=/usr/ucb:/bin:$HOME/Bin
-#Marse the command line
+#Marse the command line
 case $ in
 0)echo "USAGE: user@host [ from@somewhere ] [ mailer_host ]" >& 2
 exit 1
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ mailerhost=$3
 exit 1
 ;;
 esac
-#Mreate a header for sendmail
+#Mreate a header for sendmail
 cat <<E!O!F!> /tmp/cli$$
 helo $mailerhost
 mail from:$from<$from>
@@ -58,15 +58,15 @@ Status: RO
 
 
 E!O!F!
-#Mdit the mailer
+#Mdit the mailer
 vi /tmp/cli$$
-#M
dd a ending for the mailer
+#Mdd a ending for the mailer
 cat <<E!O!F!>> /tmp/cli$$
 .
 quit
 E!O!F!
-#Monnect to the remote host's sendmail daemon
+#Monnect to the remote host's sendmail daemon
 telnet $mailerhost smtp < /tmp/cli$$
-#Mlean up time
+#Mlean up time
 /bin/rm -f /tmp/cli$$
 _______________________________________________________________________________

phrack/issue3/2.txt

@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ ICM>. Now, when designing ICM, they must have taken into account the abuse
 possible in plain ol' PBX's. So they put in something called Call Screening.
 This will enable the company to restrict calls to certain 's and prefixes.
 Calls to non-business 's or certain areas can be screened out <"No personal
-calls on my time, Johnson!">, with the exception of 1 specific  that you want.
+calls on my time, Johnson!">, with the exception of 1 specific  that you want.
     There is a choice of having a codeless, screened PBX, or a PBX where
 accounts are assigned to each employee, and the 's they call get recorded to
 that account. There can be privileged accounts where a large volume of calls
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ would go relatively un-noticed. But I don't think that large-scale abuse of
 this system would be easy or practical. Calls are routed AUTOMATICALLY through
 the service where the rates are cheaper to the location dialed, which is pretty
 fucking cool.  And, the PBX is accessible from the outside, using Direct Inward
-System Access, making it AB-useable.
+System Access, making it AB-useable.
     But what about if there is Equal Access in that area? It doesn't matter,
 the CBX will automatically access the service without you having to worry about
 it <hell, this is totally unnecessary for a hack/phreak, cause we ain't paying