On Thu, 2001-08-23 at 01:12, Martin Sevior wrote:
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> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Gabriel Gerhardsson wrote:
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> > On Thu, 2001-08-23 at 00:41, Patrick Lam wrote:
> > > On 23 Aug 2001, Gabriel Gerhardsson wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm wondering what's being done to cut n' paste interaction with other
> > > > programs.
> > > > If I cut/copy something in AbiWord and paste it in, say, Evolution or
> > > > nedit, some characters (e.g. " and ') is replaced by a questionmark(?).
> > > > I assume that this behavior is caused by different
> > > > character-encodings/codepages in different programs. Is there a planned
> > > > resolution for this or are you still thinking?
> > >
> > > That looks like bad smart quote behaviour.
> > >
> > > I know that under Linux, Abi will create RTF and text and put those in the
> > > clipboard. I'm not sure how it works.
> > >
> > > Try disabling smart quotes and seeing what happens.
> >
> > Yep, that did it.
> >
> > What does the smart quotes really do? In other words, what do I miss
> > when turning it off?
> >
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> What you miss are mapping's of MS Word smart quote characters to regular
> ascii `"'.
Ok
/Gabriel
