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* Strange character inserted by org-capture
@ 2010-11-11 10:46 Paul Mead
  2010-11-11 14:39 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Paul Mead @ 2010-11-11 10:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Hi

I have a setup which uses Dropbox to keep files in sync, between my
Ubuntu Linux machine at home, and Windows XP at the office.

I have the following setup in org-capture:

(setq org-capture-templates (quote (("n" "Note" entry (file+headline "~/My Dropbox/gtd/notes.org" "Notes") "* %^{topic}\n%^T%?")
                                    ("c" "Contact - BBDB" entry (file+headline "~/My Dropbox/gtd/notes.org" "Notes")
                                     "* %^t %^{Contact type|Call|Meeting} with %:name - %^{subject} %^G\n%a\n%?")
                                    ("C" "Contact - no BBDB" entry (file+headline "~/My Dropbox/gtd/notes.org" "Notes")
                                     "* %^t %^{Contact type|Call|Meeting} with %^{name} - %^{subject} %^G\n%?")
                                    ("x" "Index item" entry (file+headline "~/My Dropbox/gtd/notes.org" "Notes")
                                     "* %^t %^{topic}        page %^{book--page number} %^G")
                                    ("q" "Quick capture (inbox)" entry (file "~/My Dropbox/gtd/capture.org")
                                     "* %^{description}")
                                    ("t" "TODO" entry (file+headline "~/My Dropbox/gtd/gtd.org" "08 Todos")
                                                           "* TODO %^{todo description} %^G\n%u")
                                    ("p" "Project" entry (file+headline "~/My Dropbox/gtd/gtd.org" "05 Projects")
                                     "* %^{Project description} %^G           :project:\n%u")
                                    ("r" "RFS" entry (file+headline "~/My Dropbox/gtd/gtd.org" "06 RFS")
                                     "* %^{yyyymmyy description rfs no} %^G          :project:%u")
                                    ("i" "Invoice" entry (file+headline "~/My Dropbox/gtd/invoicing.org" "Invoicing")
                                     "* TODO %^{Supplier|supplier1|supplier2|supplier3} %^{Account} invoice %^{Invoice number} - £%^{Amount Ex VAT} - %^{Date (dd mmm yy)}\n%u"
))))

I am experiencing some strange behaviour when using the last option
(Invoice) on my XP machine. The template inserts a strange character (I
don't recognise it but it looks like an upper case A with a symbol above
it) immediately before the £ sign.

This doesn't happen on the Linux machine using the same files, same
template, etc. 

Any ideas? 

Thanks, Paul 

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* Re: Strange character inserted by org-capture
  2010-11-11 10:46 Strange character inserted by org-capture Paul Mead
@ 2010-11-11 14:39 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
  2010-11-11 14:56   ` Eric S Fraga
  2010-11-11 15:19   ` Paul Mead
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Giovanni Ridolfi @ 2010-11-11 14:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paul Mead; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

Paul Mead <paul.d.mead@gmail.com> writes:

Hi, Paulm
>
> I have the following setup in org-capture:
>
> (setq org-capture-templates (quote (
>                                     ("i" "Invoice" entry (file+headline "~/My Dropbox/gtd/invoicing.org" "Invoicing")
>                                      "* TODO %^{Supplier|supplier1|supplier2|supplier3} %^{Account} invoice %^{Invoice number} - £%^{Amount Ex VAT} - %^{Date (dd mmm yy)}\n%u"
> ))))
>
> I am experiencing some strange behaviour when using the last option
> (Invoice) on my XP machine. The template inserts a strange character (I
> don't recognise it but it looks like an upper case A with a symbol above
> it) immediately before the £ sign.

Also my template with the "÷" character showed the same behaviour.

I think it's a problem of file encoding. 

+ Is your .emacs utf-8? I mean the file where you store the 
                       "(setq org-capture-templates (quote"
+ is invoicing.org utf-8?

C-x RET f utf-8   # change file encoding

hth
Giovanni

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* Re: Strange character inserted by org-capture
  2010-11-11 14:39 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
@ 2010-11-11 14:56   ` Eric S Fraga
  2010-11-11 15:19   ` Paul Mead
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eric S Fraga @ 2010-11-11 14:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Giovanni Ridolfi; +Cc: emacs-orgmode, Paul Mead

Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it> writes:

> Paul Mead <paul.d.mead@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi, Paulm
>>
>> I have the following setup in org-capture:
>>
>> (setq org-capture-templates (quote (
>> ("i" "Invoice" entry (file+headline "~/My Dropbox/gtd/invoicing.org" "Invoicing")
>> "* TODO %^{Supplier|supplier1|supplier2|supplier3} %^{Account} invoice %^{Invoice number} -
> £%^{Amount Ex VAT} - %^{Date (dd mmm yy)}\n%u"
>> ))))
>>
>> I am experiencing some strange behaviour when using the last option
>> (Invoice) on my XP machine. The template inserts a strange character (I
>> don't recognise it but it looks like an upper case A with a symbol above
>> it) immediately before the £ sign.

This is the result of an UTF-8 encoded character being displayed as a
sequence of latin-1 (or similar encoding) characters.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1
: using Org-mode version 7.3 (release_7.3.49.g0239)

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* Re: Strange character inserted by org-capture
  2010-11-11 14:39 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
  2010-11-11 14:56   ` Eric S Fraga
@ 2010-11-11 15:19   ` Paul Mead
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Paul Mead @ 2010-11-11 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it> writes:

> Also my template with the "÷" character showed the same behaviour.
>
> I think it's a problem of file encoding. 
>
> + Is your .emacs utf-8? I mean the file where you store the 
>                        "(setq org-capture-templates (quote"
> + is invoicing.org utf-8?
>
> C-x RET f utf-8   # change file encoding
>
> hth
> Giovanni

Changing the init file encoding did the trick, thanks!

Paul

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