From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Copying to unicode. Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:34:35 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <877hguqefo.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291884356 1617 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 08:45:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:45:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 09:45:52 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQc8M-0002PN-Nl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:45:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43146 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQc8L-00031l-UL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:45:50 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1288820075 6030 143.93.54.11 (3 Nov 2010 21:34:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 21:34:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:V0r7phDC7Dh9jcp6qYeayKAOBlw= Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-192-223.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182182 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:76885 Archived-At: "Steven W. Orr" 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