From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe? Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:00:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1171628373.417583.61410@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87zm7e8e7j.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171939238 11721 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2007 02:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:40:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 20 03:40:32 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 1HJKvf-0002tn-Sb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:40:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJKvf-0006fF-C7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:00:19 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DVm/dimnbudIfeFIp4qnfHUrv3A= Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-ylQjnBoV60uKO6FCa6+pKt/TAhFM0jrIF+PImJlJWejeqi5mHY3VMLb3MfQkME+PY7F49uOm5EmSxHW!wdOHMFx761/Sg8bD09lkMO17ky26Hi09o/w5wS+6td++PBkAZfsipdIq/If+u+sD/IzAc9VTSWcz!2jgwArye0T36tmVDrw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145732 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:41336 Archived-At: > (replace-string "—" "--" nil (point-min) (point-max)) ; multi-byte [...] > Also, multi-byte strings such as the first should be toward > the top of the list so that single-byte replacements don't > cut them up, making subsequent searches for them impossible. Huh? There is no overlap between the single-char string "—" and the single char strings like "\221". You can reorder them all you like. I'm not sure what you mean by "multi-byte", but it sounds like there might be some confusion here. Stefan