From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe? Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:22:47 -0500 Message-ID: <45D62EB7.9020804@speakeasy.net> References: <1171628373.417583.61410@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87zm7e8e7j.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> <87r6sqqbra.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171664604 2128 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2007 22:23:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:23:24 +0000 (UTC) To: GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 16 23:23:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HIBU2-0003yV-35 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:23:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HIBU1-0001vq-Jc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:23:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HIBTk-0001ud-My for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:22:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HIBTj-0001tf-5D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:22:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HIBTi-0001tU-KL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:22:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HIBTi-00087F-4r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:22:54 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 10716 invoked from network); 16 Feb 2007 22:22:52 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.0.27]) (gebser@[66.93.11.17]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Feb 2007 22:22:52 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) In-Reply-To: <87r6sqqbra.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 OpenPGP: id=45796D04 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41264 Archived-At: On 02/16/2007 11:59 AM somebody named Brendan Halpin wrote: > ken writes: > > The problem may be that in passing through usenet and from one > machine to another, the "garbage" characters got garbled -- in your > version I see things that look like "Â\200" which indicates > problems with multibyte characters. > > You could try deleting them and entering them again: to enter \200, > for instance, do C-q 2 0 0 RET. Cutting and pasting from an email, I get this (which in the email is an em-dash): — Hmmm. Funny. When I cut-n-paste the string of chars from emacs back into this Tbird compose window, it looks like an em-dash again. Here's what C-x= tells it is (one character at a time): ESC % G â \200 \224 ESC % @ How do I get emacs to understand that, i.e., to look for in order to replace? tnx++, ken