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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to scan file for non-ascii chars (eg cut-n-paste from ms-word)
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:38:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874o957bji.fsf@mithlond.arda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ih4r54$fnv$1@reader1.panix.com> (David Combs's message of "Tue,  18 Jan 2011 19:54:12 +0000 (UTC)")

* 2011-01-18 19:54 (UTC), David Combs wrote:

>>> What I'd like to do is change those "strange" characters to their
>>> plain-ascii "equivalent", so to speak. Like '"' for double quote
>>> (left OR right), etc.

> What'd be nice is something that went through the whole buffer *once*,
> doing the "right thing" with each non-ascii char.

I don't know if Linux system's "iconv" utility is available in other
operating systems but at least GNU/Linux users could do it with this:

    C-u M-x shell-command-on-region RET iconv -t ascii//translit RET

with the region being the whole buffer. RET means <Enter> key, in Emacs
speak.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-09  0:53 how to scan file for non-ascii chars (eg cut-n-paste from ms-word) David Combs
2011-01-09 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-09 16:24   ` Kenneth Goldman
2011-01-09 17:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-09 17:53       ` how to scan file for non-ascii chars (egcut-n-paste " Drew Adams
     [not found]       ` <mailman.8.1294595713.11727.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-18 20:19         ` David Combs
2011-01-19  2:02           ` how to scan file for non-ascii chars(egcut-n-paste " Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5.1294594249.11727.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-18 20:06       ` how to scan file for non-ascii chars (eg cut-n-paste " David Combs
     [not found] ` <mailman.11.1294583034.18702.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-18 19:54   ` David Combs
2011-01-18 21:32     ` harven
2011-01-19  4:38     ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2011-01-20  6:57       ` Kevin Rodgers

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