Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:25:41 -0500
From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Thanks for the heads up on these functions, Eli. I did use the C-x ret c
utf-8 ploy but that just repeats my default settings. I see most
characters legibly with C-x ret c iso-8859-1 but there are still a few
escape sequences sprinkled around. The most common are those pretty
quotes that Latex substitutes for ascii single or double quote. What
were vowels with macrons in the pdf are bare vowels so they must have
been compiled into the pdf as uncomposed (not monolithic composed glyphs).
It might be a good idea to submit a bug report with "M-x
report-emacs-bug RET", then. Please tell there what program(s) and
command line options you used to produce the text file from PDF, and
someone will look into this and see whether Emacs could do any
better.