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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Encoding help
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:58:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1MBcwF-0000Om-QO@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jcCdnXNu9PT0z7jXnZ2dnUVZ_hqdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (nihil@nihilo.net)

> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:25:41 -0500
> From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> 
> Thanks for the heads up on these functions, Eli. I did use the C-x ret c 
> utf-8 ploy but that just repeats my default settings. I see most 
> characters legibly  with C-x ret c iso-8859-1 but there are still a few 
> escape sequences sprinkled around. The most common are those pretty 
> quotes that Latex substitutes for ascii single or double quote. What 
> were vowels with macrons in the pdf are bare vowels so they must have 
> been compiled into the pdf as uncomposed (not monolithic composed glyphs).

It might be a good idea to submit a bug report with "M-x
report-emacs-bug RET", then.  Please tell there what program(s) and
command line options you used to produce the text file from PDF, and
someone will look into this and see whether Emacs could do any
better.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-02 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-01 16:51 Encoding help B. T. Raven
2009-06-01 23:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.8314.1243897564.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-02 16:25   ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-02 22:58     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.8392.1243983524.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-03 17:35       ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-03 17:58         ` Peter Dyballa

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