Re: A washing function to turn Unicode punctuation into ASCII

[Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
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> international/latin1-disp.el.

Oh, yes, of course that was the inspiration for the name unicode-disp.el
:-)  I ended up mangling any window-display-table too, but much less
chars.

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
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> latin1-display-ucs-per-lynx

I had a lot of doubts about multi-char replacements, as they can make a
mess of lined-up text tables, or make lines very long.  As long as it
can be turned on and off I suppose you can look at it both ways when
needed.  (If it's coming out of html then of course asking the renderer
to do the replacements can flow etc at that level.)

I toyed with face colours as a visual clue, but didn't much like it,
even something modest like `escape-face'.  With many replacements the
screen breaks out in freckles when in all honesty you don't care if some
drongo thought variant hyphens or quotes were smart.