From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/74064 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: A washing function to turn Unicode punctuation into ASCII Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:01:46 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <8739r66s8d.fsf@blah.blah> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289750713 23436 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2010 16:05:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:05:13 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22433@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Nov 14 17:05:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PHf4l-0007bE-W5 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:05:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PHf4F-0005OR-QB; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:04:35 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PHf4E-0005OA-Gg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:04:34 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PHf48-0002vI-S4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:04:34 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PHf48-0006eV-00 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:04:28 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PHf47-0007BL-0w for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:04:27 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no ([84.215.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:04:27 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:04:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAD1BMVEUOCgkUDw4RDQwQCwtJ RUJbfo3SAAACgklEQVQ4jUVUgbEjOwgjcQMP2wWsIQXYcAV873P/NX1pczOXZDKJZZAQsFKG/ntZ rZ7h06qLW0mzMUwVXz7TM2eaS8WpVRtq+OF+MSJxIFot3VrEFJmSCJhBUJAYOOLTpUixgnPzYgQU uXE3pZRYIBmj2iWPGhBlgKOSqA6tYfKo/fIjtFb7q5tAxR2oWrheEUTZSg4kAmbm1DGIIsofDl/8 GqxDUa2725ejaXXGIOAXzDz/AhWCq9ZM64SbwZWH46uM96DPw+iGUJ4rbImMtJt1wMK8hAa8w1Bx xrVu8/6Gu0hVMq/MVasi4AO124LWiQfeyjJh6kbeg2SAZCE5OIy+QKnpZoc8BHXWv40FYD4OS08T SBgUbAqZ/H2MPYTcQXs6OzBblLCTJUtxeSRAe0qujjM7d5b5dnB4jBYp0crve0p8tp5LkIoFm83x 5+57/yDm7JO+UHnQuDxn9nMOGn+QLAGwUejr2XMdVQzL55xWliSrMjvnyviPo6WdQAEA8fWD8IDX sA75Ts2QwfOK5GHRUJpPAPBMnmnq57bQ+sOKGbLrEPYVAWj5p+rZHWLxajARTuEf5mbDTOYnoFS1 GxjMV2tjysj5AC+BAwywHNaW/ujPA+whfY9+FAvS2ZDNa+QgoP1uGL++O2fv9QTMF4GDRkWOrfv0 1k/23mQJru1n2D/kxOfOV9JE9vrZFzChEE0FC4aVqdQd7lguzPpoE5zoKIZ63EjTNQN3Zr9Tlq0t 7IflZx+/BiZks/tY3tGexbG+z5vLlEs7ipXasYPo3mz1tzjWAvEIMpHXE3Fd/aOLW8IJa1IuDAsA CPqA11iNYimcD4/1fQBgcP49mwb2IK7/AV4jmo5/rdssAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Japan's _Oil On Canvas (2)_: "Nightporter" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FWqQq5SRzg8L7p+P4H3izfFU//w= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:74064 Archived-At: Kevin Ryde writes: > A bit of display table can do a similar thing, and helps all modes. > I made my own few lines for hypens and quotes which seem to be the most > common nonsense. Is there more or better code doing the same? > > http://user42.tuxfamily.org/unicode-disp/index.html This makes a lot of sense. But I'm beginning to wonder whether Emacs has any built-in functionality for doing this stuff? It would seem like a very natural thing to do -- declare that your Emacs is running in an ASCII environment, and then Emacs sets up display tables to automatically do this transformation... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen