From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 21:19:26 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Overhauled the fix-nonstandard-chars function because it was completely broken.
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Overhauled the fix-nonstandard-chars function because it was completely broken.
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diff --git a/fix-nonstandard-chars.el b/fix-nonstandard-chars.el
index 52f42df..2ba368b 100644
--- a/fix-nonstandard-chars.el
+++ b/fix-nonstandard-chars.el
@@ -2,11 +2,18 @@
   "Replace some typical nonstandard characters that result from
    copy-and-pasting word processor text into XHTML documents."
 
-  (interactive "P")
+  (interactive "p")
 
-  (replace-string "’" "'")
-  (replace-string "“" "&ldquo;")
-  (replace-string "”" "&rdquo;")
-  (replace-string "–" "-")
-  (replace-string "—" "&mdash;")
+  (setq replacements '( ("’" "'")
+			("“" "&ldquo;")
+			("”" "&rdquo;")
+			("–" "-")
+			("—" "&mdash;") ))
+
+  (dolist (replacement replacements nil)
+    ;; The mark gets all fucked up here. It's easiest to
+    ;; just return to the beginning of the buffer each time.
+    (beginning-of-buffer)
+    (replace-string (nth 0 replacement) (nth 1 replacement))
+    )
 )