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

[Juanma Barranquero]

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