From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe? Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:22:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1171628373.417583.61410@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171644101 22310 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2007 16:41:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:41:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 16 17:41:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HI697-0001o5-EI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:41:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HI697-0006iD-13 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:41:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:22:17 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dyTQGPGmrDDMbBbSdudZIhD5OEo= Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-B82tHNCQzStgSZRdjJH0EQZbRz96gCGl6pBEz92VmXxrleTXH3TIbbyIuHETD4GIw9F3dzUtA3Iv90a!HUfMzJl7cXmolcJ/AjIj8Lp6ULgH1al5KoQbb9ikHUzXVhtpuoa0qz/GzuZBA5LW2tHujLn+XBJl!lO3sx/oOHRRjf8bSKw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145654 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41259 Archived-At: > My apologies as I know this topic has been covered before, but despite > much Googling I haven't found a simple, direct solution to the > problem. > I have just started seeing lots of nasty stuff like \222 instead of > apostrophes in working on text files in Emacs on XP, then trying to > reformat these files for LaTeX. My guess is I picked this garbage up > when I copy-and-pasted some material out of Word, though I'm not > certain. Emacs on XP displays these characters fine when I am just > working with a .txt or .org file - which is why I didn't pick up on > the problem earlier. > I am looking for a simple function or .el package that will remove the > garbage and replace it with latin1 encoding or whatever is acceptable > to LaTeX. I have done lots of Googling but haven't come up with > anything that doesn't refer to gnus (which I don't use) or which > doesn't get me lost in talk of this encoding system or that. A search- > and-replace function will do fine - and I will even write it myself if > someone gives me a tip on how to get started (again, I'm not a lisp > expert). An alternative solution to the one you request might be to open the file using the `windows-1252' coding-system rather than `latin-1'. C-x RET c windows-1252 RET C-x C-f RET or if you have a recent Emacs, you can just revert the buffer with a different coding system: C-x RET r windows-1252 RET -- Stefan