On 11/4/05, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> m ike wrote:
> > I've googled for this issue, but everything seems to be about extended
> > character sets, not about 'mapping' them to smaller sets.
> >
> > http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/sarcopenia.html
> >
> > Copy/pastes from web pages like the above into xemacs (or xterm)
> > result in 'atypical' single and double quotes, which I need to global
> > find/replace with 'normal' quotes. Is there a way to configure xterm
> > or xemacs or enscript or .... to automatically do substitutions like
> > these?
>
> I found the following quotes:
>
> Have clients perform exercises in a "pain-free" range of motion with
> controlled joint movements (Balady 2000).
>
> It's up to us to spread the word and motivate our clients to engage in
> a progressive RT program for a strong and healthy life.
>
> These were direct cut and pastes from the webpage. Nothing funny showing
> up here. I am using Firefox 1.0.6[1] and this is vim 6.1[2]. I also
> pasted it into an rxvt 2.7.9[3], again with no problems.
Interesting. When I open that webpage (Firefox 1.0.7) and try cut and
paste, I can cut (copy) but have nothing to paste, either into the
stdin of cat(1) or as a text insertion in vim.
If I use Firefox to save the page as text, the offending quote
characters are saved as 077, a genuine question mark (?). If I use
Firefox to save the page as html, the quote characters are “ and
”
Bah.
carl
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