Copying to unicode.

Copying to unicode.

[Steven W. Orr]

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.

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Re: Copying to unicode.

[Andreas Politz]

"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

Re: Copying to unicode.

[Daniel Pittman]

"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.

Gnus has "Wash Dumbquotes" in `gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes' that implements
this for email read that way.

        Daniel
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