Re: How to translate LaTeX into UTF-8 in Elisp?

[Emanuel Berg]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> I'm revisiting this old thread now. Since I got no
> satisfying answers back then, here is my plan for
> solution. I'm going first to map \', \` etc.
> onto /names/ (this is a rather short list!),
> construct a Unicode name of the character I want and
> then use =ucs-names=.
>
> For instance, \' maps to "ACUTE", then \'a will map
> to "LATIN SMALL LETTER A ACUTE" and this can be fed
> into =char-from-name=.
>
> It is a horrible hack

On the contrary. Add another layer of abstraction.

If you setup the names consistently it is even
a good-looking solution.

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