Re: displaying escaped unicode files

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Gulliver7 <rpontisso@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> http://www.nabble.com/user-files/235986/escapedunicode.properties
> escapedunicode.properties 

If you have the previously mentioned `ucs-insert' function (either by
running Emacs 22, or from Dave Love's code for earlier emacs), you can
use a simple function like the following to do the whole buffer:

   (defun expand-ucs-escapes ()
     (interactive)
     (save-excursion
       (goto-char (point-min))
       (while (re-search-forward "[\\]u\\([0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]\\)"
                                 nil t)
         (let ((code (match-string 1)))
           (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0))
           (ucs-insert code)))))

[Invoke it as "M-x expand-ucs-escapes" or bind it to a key or something.]

-Miles
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