Re: fixing M$ character codes

[Haines Brown <brownh@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>]

Jym Dyer <jym@econet.org> writes:

> > As on who often has to process documents with 8-bit
> > characters, your lisp code was certainly welcome.
> > But it does not seem to do anything.
> 
> =v= I type "Meta-X jym.de8" and it goes through a bunch of
> query-replaces.  (Or "Meta-X jym.de8qp" for quoted-printable
> buffers.)  Like I said, it's pretty much a sledgehammer and
> someday I'll clean it up.  But it does the job.
>     <_Jym_>

I think I've got myself straightened out, thanks.

One thing that confused me was that I was not sure how to define
"quoted printable." 

I'd also like to avoid being queried for each kind of replacement, as
happens with the ! command. 

-- 
      Haines Brown