From: Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: character encoding
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:36:24 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021021.163624.59467597.acmuller@gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87smz13p05.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
Hugh wrote:
>
> Sometimes when I cut and past "it's" from a web page into an emacs
> buffer it transfers as "it?s". Ditto for other similar events.
Most likely these are "curly" apostrophes that are inserted when people
publish HTML by first writing it in a word processor like Word or Word
Perfect, which use curly apostrophes and quotation marks by default, rather
than standard, straight apostrophes. I suspect that if you copy this text
into any other plain text editor (not only Emacs) the same thing will
happen.
I am working on a couple of different web projects where people submit these
kinds of word processor generated HTML documents, and it is a real pain in
the neck to have to clean them up all the time.
Chuck
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Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com>
Faculty of Humanities, Toyo Gakuen University
Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJKV-English Dictionary
[http://www.acmuller.net]
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-20 19:01 character encoding Hugh Lawson
2002-10-21 7:36 ` Charles Muller [this message]
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2002-10-26 17:34 ` Ivan Kanis
2002-10-26 19:13 ` Michael Slass
2002-10-26 20:05 ` Michael Slass
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