From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to translate LaTeX into UTF-8 in Elisp? Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 07:43:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87y3s6vzwg.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87shpyfj2q.fsf@mbork.pl> <87bmp2rud7.fsf@jane> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499060748 22996 195.159.176.226 (3 Jul 2017 05:45:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 05:45:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 03 07:45:44 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dRuB4-0005bs-8r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 07:45:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRuB9-0000WI-G2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 01:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52474) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRuAi-0000Vz-MX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 01:45:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRuAf-0001ki-JW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 01:45:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38384 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRuAf-0001jy-Cu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 01:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dRuAS-0003qF-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 07:45:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:dlR2wTPfp7sFVOKXu+WMm4XR43s= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113664 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > I'm revisiting this old thread now. Since I got no > satisfying answers back then, here is my plan for > solution. I'm going first to map \', \` etc. > onto /names/ (this is a rather short list!), > construct a Unicode name of the character I want and > then use =ucs-names=. > > For instance, \' maps to "ACUTE", then \'a will map > to "LATIN SMALL LETTER A ACUTE" and this can be fed > into =char-from-name=. > > It is a horrible hack On the contrary. Add another layer of abstraction. If you setup the names consistently it is even a good-looking solution. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573