From: "Steven W. Orr" <steveo@syslang.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Copying to unicode.
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:27:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD18D81.1080309@syslang.net> (raw)
People send me stuff from Outlook all the time. I sometimes want to copy some
of the text to a file I'm editing in emacs. The text displays fine in emacs,
but what I really want to do is to set myself up so that *funny* characters
end up being pasted in using unicode.
I see that there's something called the nonascii-translation-table. I'm
looking for low-hanging fruit. Has anyone already written something cool that
translates funny characters to keep me in unibyte? Examples would be:
Open or close double quotes ==> " ( \042 )
enspace, mspace, etc ==> ' ' ( \040 )
Funny single quotes ==> ' ( \047 )
etc...
Anyone? Or is this a dumb idea?
Thanks.
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next reply other threads:[~2010-11-03 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-03 16:27 Steven W. Orr [this message]
2010-11-07 8:35 ` Copying to unicode Daniel Pittman
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2010-11-03 21:34 ` Andreas Politz
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