From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: \200\231 showing in org-mode post
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:12:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvof3myi.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20140122162254.38405076@london
Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net> writes:
> 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."
>> >
>> > 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.
>
Now I'm *really* confused: org-export-with-smart-quotes only affects how
an org file is exported. What does that have to do with pasting stuff
from the web into an org file?
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 18:12 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
2014-01-22 17:42 ` Nick Dokos
2014-01-22 18:12 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-01-22 18:28 ` Sharon Kimble
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