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 08:28:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbxcb0xd.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20140122111211.33e743ab@london
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).
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?
--
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 14:53 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 [this message]
2014-01-22 16:22 ` Sharon Kimble
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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