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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe?
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:00:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7iudfv3t.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4721.1171894691.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

>   (replace-string "—" "--" nil (point-min) (point-max)) ; multi-byte
[...]
> Also, multi-byte strings such as the first should be toward
> the top of the list so that single-byte replacements don't
> cut them up, making subsequent searches for them impossible.

Huh?  There is no overlap between the single-char string "—" and the single
char strings like "\221".  You can reorder them all you like.

I'm not sure what you mean by "multi-byte", but it sounds like there might
be some confusion here.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-20  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-16 12:19 How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe? Endless Story
2007-02-16 12:44 ` Brendan Halpin
2007-02-16 16:02   ` ken
2007-02-16 16:14     ` Sebastian P. Luque
2007-02-17 11:04       ` ken
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4605.1171641752.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-16 16:59     ` Brendan Halpin
2007-02-16 22:22       ` ken
2007-02-17  1:47   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-17 12:06     ` ken
     [not found]     ` <mailman.4653.1171713988.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-17 17:29       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-19 14:17   ` ken
2007-02-19 16:28     ` Shanks N
2007-02-19 18:48       ` ken
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4721.1171894691.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-20  2:00     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-02-20 10:45       ` ken
2007-02-20 10:56         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-20 12:46           ` ken
2007-02-20 13:07             ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-21  9:29     ` Endless Story
2007-02-16 16:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-16 17:00   ` Endless Story
2007-02-16 22:00     ` Radamanthe

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