From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Copying to unicode.
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:34:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hguqefo.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7.1288812009.12865.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Steven W. Orr" <steveo@syslang.net> writes:
> 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.
Take a look at the variable `interprogram-paste-function'. All you
really have to do is using it's value (a function) to obtain the
clipboard and return some modified string, according to your needs.
-ap
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2010-11-03 21:34 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2010-11-03 16:27 Copying to unicode Steven W. Orr
2010-11-07 8:35 ` Daniel Pittman
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