On Sat Apr 16 2005 Richard Stallman wrote: > I think there is something in Emacs already to do conversions > like this, but I don't recall what. It might be in enriched mode, > or it might be in international/iso-*.el.
There is international/iso-cvt.el which translates (La)TeX and HTML files to ISO 8859-1 and back. However, I think this package does not work beyond ISO 8859-1. At least, it would be necessary to provide the appropriate conversion tables. Furthermore, it seems to me that this package is not actively maintained. I just discovered that in CVS emacs the docstring of the autoloaded command iso-iso2duden is definitely wrong, as it was already in GNU emacs 20.6.1. Is anybody using this package? In the context of BibTeX keys, the problem is a bit more subtle because ideally, one would like to translate (La)TeX (or unicode or ISO 8859) umlaute to (sequences of) plain ascii characters, for example, `�' -> `ss' and `�' -> `ae' (but depending on the context some people might prefer `�' -> `a'). I do not know whether such rules are established for other languages besides German. Here, international/iso-cvt.el contains only the conversion table iso-iso2duden-trans-tab for German umlaute, but not for any other languages -- unless I overlooked them. Roland _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
