From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: "Alexandre Oberlin" <please@nospam.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Single unrecognized character wrecks entire display
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:08:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0017B5DB-C098-472D-AAFE-9682448D70F3@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.wjjvoehsdp0apa@eucalyptus>
Am 24.08.2012 um 16:54 schrieb Alexandre Oberlin:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:46:47 +0200, Alexandre Oberlin <please@nospam.com> wrote:
>> The original is in English and has no such problems, but opens in emacs as raw text Mac.
> Wrong! Actually the original also has offending characters in geographic names:
> \207 and \222.
This could be easily cured: pass it to a converter which can remove inappropriate bytes. Iconv has the -c option. You could use it to convert from UTF-8 to UTF-8-MAC and from one the untouched original file to a working copy. Then translate the working copy.
--
Greetings
Pete
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night, but set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-18 16:35 Single unrecognized character wrecks entire display Alexandre Oberlin
2012-08-18 22:33 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.7220.1345329241.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-22 9:36 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2012-08-22 15:18 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.7419.1345648764.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-24 13:46 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2012-08-24 14:54 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2012-08-24 15:08 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2012-08-24 15:01 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-08-22 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-24 13:13 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2012-08-25 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier
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