On 28 Oct 2002, Ryan Camick wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:58, Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
> > I was trying to cut'n'paste with the mouse from the webapge > > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-dhcp-configuring-server.html > > into an xterm, and found that the "emdash" characters (the extra-long > > hyphens represented by the HTML character reference — prevent > > pasting of the text if they are included in the selection. This happens with ‐o -- some other rendition of dash in Gnome -- and is said to be expected behaviour: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76181 Doesn't seem right to me, either. > Confirmed. Same results here. Cut'n'paste to xterm as specified > doesn't work. I can successfully cut'n'paste that line to XChat or > Evolution, but the "emdash" is replaced by a ? or _ in those programs. > > I have no idea why. Just wanted to confirm this problem was not only > your system.
