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

[ken]

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