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From: | ken |
Subject: | Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe? |
Date: | Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:48:41 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) |
On 02/19/2007 11:28 AM somebody named Shanks N wrote: > ken <gebser@speakeasy.net> writes: > >>> "Endless Story" <usable.thought@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> 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. >>> .... > > [...] > >> (defun replace-garbage-chars () >> "Replace goofy MS and other garbage characters with latin1 equivalents." >> .... > > Can this or one of the other solutions on this thread be posted on the > emacwiki site, if you have the time? It'd help others. > > regards, > Shanks > Good idea, Shanks! Thanks. Did that: <http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/ReplaceGarbageChars> ken
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