On 11/4/05, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 &#147; and
> &#148;


interesting.  For other reason, I installed the latest mozilla,
firefox and opera last night.

In all three browsers, I can copy/paste the webpage into an stdin of
cat(1) via an xterm.
I suppose that this is dependent on KDE or Xwindows

In all three browsers, the quote marks appear atypical.   And the
'problematic' copy/paste behavior persists.


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