[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> How do I get my emacs apps to display properly the special
> character ’ in the sentence "We took a look at Warner’s
> release of the classic Gaslight" taken off a web page rendered by
> emacs-w3m? The character is displayed as a fancy apostrophe when
> viewed in Mozilla.
Those characters are in a non-standard microsoft character set (many
people end up using them on web pages without realizing this).
I think this character set is available in emacs as `windows-1251', so
wherever in your app you do character set translation, try using that
(I'm not sure how this will affect _other_ characters, though, e.g. the
Ñ; the whole area of MS characters seems to be a big mess).
Alternatively, you could just translate specific problematic
MS-characters into more standard characters; for an example of this
approach, see `gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes' in the file
`lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el' in the emacs source tree.
Actually, here's the relevant translation table from gnus-art.el:
(defvar gnus-article-dumbquotes-map
'(("\202" ",")
("\203" "f")
("\204" ",,")
("\205" "...")
("\213" "<")
("\214" "OE")
("\221" "`")
("\222" "'")
("\223" "``")
("\224" "\"")
("\225" "*")
("\226" "-")
("\227" "--")
("\231" "(TM)")
("\233" ">")
("\234" "oe")
("\264" "'"))
"Table for MS-to-Latin1 translation.")
[Caveat: I'm using the development version of emacs.]
-Miles
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