From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: apology + question about wierd chars in mail Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 16:45:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83zh6dy39z.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mu2dd36z.fsf@ebih.ebihd> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22401"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 29 15:45:50 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kC1Ay-0005i6-U7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2020 15:45:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45044 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kC1Ay-0003Vi-0K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2020 09:45:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kC1AY-0003VY-6H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2020 09:45:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53631) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kC1AX-0002Gk-TL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2020 09:45:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3833 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kC1AX-0005p3-10 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2020 09:45:21 -0400 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) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123850 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 14:52:36 +0200 > From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor > > OK, as for the question ... I got a mail the other > day: > > πšƒπšŠ πšŽπš— πšπš’πš— πš‹πš’πš•πš πšŸπšŽπšπšπš“πšŠ. π™Ίπš˜πš–πš–πšŽπš πš—πšŽπš› πšπš˜Μˆπš› πš’πš—πšœπš™πšŽπš”πšπš’πš˜πš— πš’πš–πš˜πš›πšπš™πš— > > 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