Re: Washing Unicode?

[Oliver Jennrich]

* Aidan Kehoe writes:

>  Ar an dara lá déag de mí Eanair, scríobh 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 (ß) 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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