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fixing M$ character codes
From: |
nospam55 |
Subject: |
fixing M$ character codes |
Date: |
Sat, 03 Jul 2004 18:00:28 +0200 |
User-agent: |
KNode/0.7.1 |
Hi! Help me and the mankind !
I have often to correct manually dowloaded M$ - originating text , i. e. I must
bother
to do the ethernal replacements
\222 into '
\213 into <
etc etc
, where the codes are taken from the well-known
(defvar gnus-article-dumbquotes-map
'(("\202" ",")
("\203" "f")
("\204" ",,")
("\205" "...")
("\213" "<")
("\214" "OE")
("\221" "`")
("\222" "'")
("\223" "``")
("\224" "\"")
("\225" "*")
("\226" "-")
("\227" "--")
("\231" "(TM)")
("\233" ">")
("\234" "oe")
("\264" "'"))
"Table for MS-to-Latin1 translation.")
Now, the big question whose answer I didn't find on the internet
is there a way for having emacs fix this mess ?
My dream is to have something like
M-x fix-evil-empire-nonsense RET
that automatically does on the selected region the replacements above for us
poor humans.
Any package? Any defun ?
Thank you :)
PS micro$oft-ware makes many people to write
\222 for ' apostrophe
\202 for , comma
\213 for < "less than"
\233 for > "greater than"
\224 for backslash
\225 for asterisk
etc etc
without they realize this :(
- fixing M$ character codes,
nospam55 <=
Re: fixing M$ character codes, Jesper Harder, 2004/07/04
Re: fixing M$ character codes, nospam55, 2004/07/05