From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: apology + question about wierd chars in mail
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 16:45:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zh6dy39z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu2dd36z.fsf@ebih.ebihd> (message from Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor on Sat, 29 Aug 2020 14:52:36 +0200)
> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 14:52:36 +0200
> From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> OK, as for the question ... I got a mail the other
> day:
>
> 𝚃𝚊 𝚎𝚗 𝚏𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚍 𝚟𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚓𝚊. 𝙺𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚏 𝚗𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚘̈𝚛 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚔𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚙𝚗
>
> This shows up as diamonds for me on the Linux VTs
> (512 glyphs). It is MATHEMATICAL MONOSPACE...
>
> What is it, why did it appear (I mean broadly
> speaking, not that someone sent it to me, I get
> that), and can I configure Emacs globally and/or the
> Gnus post (article) buffer in particular to
> automatically translate (wash) it to, in this case,
> "Ta en..." ?
The automatic part, you will have to set up yourself (not that I know
why would you want to...). But manually, assuming you have this
"text" in a writable buffer, mark the part you want to "translate",
and say
M-x ucs-normalize-NFKC-region RET
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-29 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-29 12:52 apology + question about wierd chars in mail Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-29 13:07 ` Yuri Khan
2020-08-29 13:17 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-29 13:53 ` Yuri Khan
2020-08-29 13:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-08-30 18:24 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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