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From: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: \200\231 showing in org-mode post
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:22:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140122162254.38405076@london> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbxcb0xd.fsf@gmail.com>

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:28:46 -0500
Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net> writes:
> 
> > When pasting from an article on the web into an org-mode buffer, I
> > start with - 
> > "In today’s digital age, we are needing more and more passwords to
> > secure our data and our identity."
> > and its displayed in the buffer as -
> > "In todayâ\200\231s digital age, we are needing more and more
> > passwords to secure our data and our identity."
> >
> 
> Is your org-mode buffer in UTF-8 (does it show a U at the left end of
> the modeline)? I would expect this behavior only when the org-mode
> buffer is in some 7- or 8-bit mode (ASCII or iso-8859-1).

Yes.
> 
> The apostrophe above is a "typographic apostrophe" (Unicode U+2019).
> If I copy the "today’s" part from above into a file foo.txt and I open
> the file in emacs using UTF-8 as the coding system, it shows as an
> apostrophe. If I open it using iso-8859-1, it shows as
> "todayâ\200\231s".
> 
> If I look at the file with a binary editor (od -c on Linux) I get:
> 
> ,----
> | $ od -c apostrophe-utf8.txt 
> | 0000000   t   o   d   a   y 342 200 231   s  \n
> | 0000012
> `----
> 
> So it's probably just encoding confusion between the different
> programs that you use.
> 
> > I'm using 'simpleclip' which allows me to use 'super-c
> > simpleclip-copy' as the keybinding.
> >
> > In my .emacs I have -
> > (setq selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
> > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
> > (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
> > with 'LANG=en_GB.UTF-8' being the first line in my locale settings. 
> >
> > How do I get it please that it pastes correctly from the desktop
> > clipboard, and how do I get what is already pasted, and shows the
> > aberrant behaviour, corrected please?
> >
> 
> If you just open the file in UTF-8, does the ugliness go away?
> 
I don't know how to do that, sorry.

But, when I went through my foo.org file correcting them all, they all
seemed to be either ' or " . So I had a look in my .emacs and found
that I was using -
;; Turn ' and " into ‘posh’ “quotes”
;;(setq org-export-with-smart-quotes t)

so I commented it out as you can see, and I'm now just carrying on as
normal and just waiting to see if that clears it up. 

Thanks
Sharon.
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-22 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-22 11:12 \200\231 showing in org-mode post Sharon Kimble
2014-01-22 13:28 ` Nick Dokos
2014-01-22 16:22   ` Sharon Kimble [this message]
2014-01-22 17:42     ` Nick Dokos
2014-01-22 18:12     ` Nick Dokos
2014-01-22 18:28       ` Sharon Kimble

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