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Re: Washing Unicode?
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Oliver Jennrich |
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Re: Washing Unicode? |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:18:03 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, cygwin32) |
* Aidan Kehoe writes:
> Ar an dara lá déag de mà Eanair, scrÃobh Oliver Jennrich:
>> Let me put the question first and explain then, what I mean:
>>
>> Is there an (easy) way to get rid of 'useless' Unicode characters in
>> articles?
>>
>> 'Useless' is not meant in a pejorative way but specifies those unicode
>> characters for which there exist perfectly acceptable counterparts in
>> the usual iso-set.
>>
>> For some reason, the number of posters who use unicode as a coding
>> system for their articles is increasing, even if all they are using
>> are accented letters, as German umlauts (ä, ö, ü), the sharp s (Ã) or
>> others such as á or é.
> That would be me :-) .
>> I am thinking along the line of the 'washing' options, which seem to
>> pre-process the body before displaying it. Any ideas, how to adapt one
>> of the existing ones (or writing a new one, if needed)?
> If your XEmacs has Mule support, and the Mule-UCS package installed, try
> running evaluating (require 'mule-ucs) before running Gnus.
Yes, I know. I was hoping to be able to avoid that. My last attempt
to build a Mule-aware XEmacs failed miserably.
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