Re: How to get rid of Microsoft dumb quotes, e.g. \222 for apostrophe?

[Radamanthe]

Endless Story wrote:
> On Feb 16, 11:22 am, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > An alternative solution to the one you request might be to open the file
> > using the `windows-1252' coding-system rather than `latin-1'.
> >
> >         C-x RET c windows-1252 RET C-x C-f <thefile> RET
> >
> > or if you have a recent Emacs, you can just revert the buffer with
> > a different coding system:
> >
> >         C-x RET r windows-1252 RET
>
> This does nothing to address the situation I am talking about, where
> these bad characters need to be removed altogether so they will not
> foul up text files handed to LaTeX. Also Sebastian's suggestion of
> (standard-display-ascii ?\200 (vector (decode-char 'ucs #x253c))),
> etc., does nothing either. As far as I can see both of these
> approaches merely permit the "correct" display of \222 etc. inside
> Emacs. That's not my problem!

Emacs display \222 in place of the character because it did not found 
this one in the font (btw, \222 = 0x92 = 146 which is not a "visual" 
character), so it displays the character with its octal code. If you 
move your cursor over it, you'll see that the whole \222 is just a 
unique character.

Tell us what should Emacs do to represent a character it doesn't have 
the layout for ? :)


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R.N.