autochange of signs

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Fri Apr 13 20:45:34 CEST 2007


On Friday 13 April 2007 18:08, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:40, georg.emberger at gmx.at said:
> > I have a question - if I am writing an eMail in KMail and I want to
> > change some signs automatically (germans have their strange
> > "Umlaute" like Ä Ö Ü... they should be changed to some
> > international AE OE or UE) - how I can manage
>
[snip]
>
> If you still want to butcher our Umlauts, you may run sed over the
> text. Something like:
>
>    sed 's/ä/ae/g; s/ö/oe/g; s/ü/ue/g'
>
> Gnus has a way to run external commands like sed over its message
> buffer; I guess Kmail has such a feature too.

Actually, KMail doesn't have such a feature. (You can run a script on 
the already sent message, but not on the to-be-sent message.)

Regards,
Ingo
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