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Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe?
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ken |
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Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe? |
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Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:46:52 -0500 |
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On 02/20/2007 05:56 AM somebody named Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On 2/20/07, ken <gebser@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
>> When I copy-n-paste "—" into an emacs buffer, one of the (several) bytes
>> displayed is represented by '\224'.
>
> In a unibyte buffer, you mean? Does it appear correctly if you do
>
> M-: (set-buffer-multibyte t) <RET>
>
> ?
>
>> Have you tried to copy-n-paste "—" into an emacs buffer?
>> What do you get?
>
> I get an em dash (U+2014). I'm starting Emacs in multibyte mode (the
> default).
>
> Juanma
The OP (original poster) on this thread was having to deal with MS
characters appearing in a buffer with latin1 encoding. I was having the
same issue. So the solution I was offering was intended for others (and
myself) who wish to retain their files in latin1 encoding.
To be sure, it's possible to save a buffer to file in another encoding.
Indeed, I'm often prompting for this when saving a buffer to file.
Since I prefer to retain files in a format which will be readable by the
most people possible, I prefer to use latin1 encoding when- and wherever
feasible. More importantly, the original questioner was asking for a
way to convert MS characters for use in latin1.
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- Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/19
- Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe?, ken, 2007/02/20
- Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe?, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/02/20
- Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe?,
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- Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe?, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/02/20
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Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/16