Re: [h-e-w] Changing smart quotes into ordinary quotes

[jasonr]

Quoting "Tolkin, Steve" <address@hidden>:

> Char: " (342396, #o1234574, #x5397c)        (Open quotation mark)
> Char: " (342397, #o1234575, #x5397d)        (Close quotation mark)
> #x53979 apostrophe
> #x53973 dash
>

The character codes above are not unicode in Emacs 22.3.

> I tried adding these 2 lines;
>                               ("\U0005397c" . "\"") ; open double quote
>                               ("\U0005397d" . "\"") ; close double quote
>
>
> But they fail, saying, "unsupported Unicode code point U+5397c" for the
> first line above.
> (I found that format for Unicode characters in some emacs help.)
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Find the unicode code points for those characters. In 22.3, it should be
reported by C-u C-x = in the format U+nnnn