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Re: Unicode and emacs
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- Subject: Re: Unicode and emacs
- From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism at lexica dot net>
- Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 15:16:17 -0700
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At 13:53 2-08-2000 +0100, you wrote:
>I'm using emacs+psgml.
>
>XML files when imported, show non plain ascii chars
>as (appearance of) \234 (but as a single character space).
Not ASCII, as another poster pointed out, but something else. Probably ISO
8859-1 (Latin 1).
>I'm fairly used to non plain chars in their xyz entity form,
>but how do I translate these into glyphs please? Or character
>references I might understand as a human, not a machine.
You can't translate a character into a glyph; one is a concept, the other
is a picture. You can, however, convince Emacs to display the glyph for
the character by typing M-x standard-display-european if the document is in
Latin 1. You can also use Mule, which comes with Emacs 20.6 (and maybe
earlier), which can do some pretty impressive display tricks.
>I can honestly say this is the first time I have frowned at
>emacs :-)
>
>Is it hex, decimal, <cringe>octal</cringe>.
>I'm guessing its in the base plain, but I'm not sure enough
>to do a M-$ on 'em.
Octal! And don't think you could easily search-and-replace on these guys;
note by cursoring over it that \234 isn't four characters but one.
-Chris
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