From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Endless Story" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe? Date: 16 Feb 2007 04:19:33 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1171628373.417583.61410@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171629640 32083 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2007 12:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:40:40 +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 13:40:33 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 1HI2O5-0005mt-KI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:40:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HI2O5-0007Aq-7G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:40:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.222.82 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1171628378 7770 127.0.0.1 (16 Feb 2007 12:19:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:19:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.10 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=162.84.222.82; posting-account=JP8pbg0AAADYDr61n41ZYs45c0xuivey Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145649 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:41254 Archived-At: My apologies as I know this topic has been covered before, but despite much Googling I haven't found a simple, direct solution to the problem. I have just started seeing lots of nasty stuff like \222 instead of apostrophes in working on text files in Emacs on XP, then trying to reformat these files for LaTeX. My guess is I picked this garbage up when I copy-and-pasted some material out of Word, though I'm not certain. Emacs on XP displays these characters fine when I am just working with a .txt or .org file - which is why I didn't pick up on the problem earlier. I am looking for a simple function or .el package that will remove the garbage and replace it with latin1 encoding or whatever is acceptable to LaTeX. I have done lots of Googling but haven't come up with anything that doesn't refer to gnus (which I don't use) or which doesn't get me lost in talk of this encoding system or that. A search- and-replace function will do fine - and I will even write it myself if someone gives me a tip on how to get started (again, I'm not a lisp expert).