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Re: Copying to unicode.
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Jason Rumney |
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Re: Copying to unicode. |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:34:25 -0000 |
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On Nov 4, 12:27 am, "Steven W. Orr" <ste...@syslang.net> wrote:
> People send me stuff from Outlook all the time. I sometimes want to copy some
> of the text to a file I'm editing in emacs. The text displays fine in emacs,
> but what I really want to do is to set myself up so that *funny* characters
> end up being pasted in using unicode.
This should happen by default. What platform are you using, and what
version of Emacs?
> I see that there's something called the nonascii-translation-table. I'm
> looking for low-hanging fruit. Has anyone already written something cool that
> translates funny characters to keep me in unibyte? Examples would be:
Unibyte is something different and incompatible with Unicode, and if
you are trying to "keep in unibyte" then that probably explains why
pasting Unicode characters will not work.
article-treat-dumbquotes in gnus-art probably has what you want, but
will require that the characters are correctly decoded to start with.