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From: Peter Heslin
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Subject: Re: Using quail input methods to translate buffer text.
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:25:45 +0100
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Kenichi Handa writes:
> We don't have such a function, but this will work in many
> cases.
Thank you very much! This function will be extremely useful on a daily
basis (and I would guess also to others converting text from legacy
encodings to Unicode).
I append below a version of your function which suits my working habits.
The only problem I have noticed so far is this: if it encounters an
end-of-line at a point where it is still looking for possible keystrokes
to modify the current character, then the function stops there and does
not process the rest of the string.
I have worked around this for my purposes by appending a space to every
line before conversion, but I hope there is a cleaner solution.
(defun my-quail-conv (beg end)
(interactive "r")
(save-excursion
(with-output-to-temp-buffer "*conversion output*"
(princ (my-quail-conv-string
current-input-method
(replace-regexp-in-string "$" " "
(buffer-substring-no-properties beg end)))))))
(defun my-quail-conv-string (input-method key-string)
(let ((str "")
(old-input-method current-input-method))
(activate-input-method input-method)
(setq unread-command-events (string-to-list key-string))
(while unread-command-events
(let ((key (car unread-command-events))
events)
(setq unread-command-events (cdr unread-command-events))
(setq events (funcall input-method-function key))
(dolist (elt events)
(if (integerp elt)
(setq str (concat str (string elt)))))))
(activate-input-method old-input-method)
(decode-coding-string (encode-coding-string str 'utf-8) 'utf-8)))
Thanks again,
Peter
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Peter Heslin (http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin)