Re: Turning HTML character references into something readable?

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Apr 28 2003, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
>
>> I don't think that Gnus is able to convert UTF-8 to JIS.
>
> Does Emacs 21.3 include utf-translate-cjk already?  

No.

> That might be able to do it.

Not (AFAICS) in CVS HEAD (from half an hour ago):

- (setq utf-translate-cjk t)

- C&P the char from <shr87oa53h.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de">news:shr87oa53h.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de> into a
  buffer.

- Save buffer, answer utf-8 on prompt for coding.

- Open the file (with utf-8 coding), I see:

,----[ M-x describe-char RET ]
|   character: [a rectangle] (01175275, 326333, 0x4fabd)
|     charset: mule-unicode-e000-ffff
|            (Unicode characters of the range U+E000..U+FFFF.)
|  code point: 117 61
|      syntax: w        which means: word
|    category:
| buffer code: 0x9C 0xF3 0xF5 0xBD
|   file code: 0xEF 0xBF 0xBD (encoded by coding system mule-utf-8-unix)
|     Unicode: FFFD
|        font: -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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