Using quail input methods to translate buffer text.

[Peter Heslin]

I have some ascii text that I want to convert to utf-8, and it is
encoded in a manner just like one of the quail input methods.  Can
anyone tell me if there is a function that will take text from a buffer
and treat it as if it were input as keystrokes to quail, and then output
the result in Unicode?

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Heslin (http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin)