Re: Copying to unicode.

[Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>]

"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