Re: replacing characters and whacky trans-buffer conversion

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.03.2007 um 11:15 schrieb ken:

> "Replace goofy MS and other garbage characters with latin1  
> equivalents."

I wouldn't recommend to do so! You can easily open such a file in  
some MS Windows encoding, enter a SPC, save in some ISO Latin, and  
remove the SPC (I think one change is needed to make GNU Emacs save a  
file, because: what's the sense in saving a safe file?). Don't forget  
to save again ...

If you have more of such files you can use recode or iconv to convert  
them to some ISO Latin. Or: you can use Samba to present all MS  
Windows files in ISO Latin ... (a mount option)

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  Pete

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