From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Halpin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe? Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:59:37 +0000 Message-ID: <87r6sqqbra.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> References: <1171628373.417583.61410@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87zm7e8e7j.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> Reply-To: brendan.halpin@ul.ie NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171647638 3552 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2007 17:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:40:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 16 18:40:30 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 1HI74Q-0004vb-8b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HI74P-00073t-RM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:40:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: individual.net CDabE0FrI085dEssP/qyVQXUw+TuHbzzr06srcEF/oJNAUPpfy User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gPTthHj2Mdn7zPTW0Ly/HF3Z6g4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145655 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:41260 Archived-At: ken writes: > But something is not right. Can anyone tell where the problem > is. Running this function I get no errors, but the garbage/mschars are > not replaced. 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. Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html