Steve Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 11:58 am
>>
>> I asked this question before, but it wasn't really resolved. I often
>> have to paste from Word for Windows into vim/gvim (cygwin).
>>
>> Some characters don't
Frodak wrote:
--- Steve Hall wrote:
From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 12:54 pm
Steve Hall wrote:
From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 11:58 am
I often have to paste from Word for Windows
into vim/gvim
(cygwin). Some characters don't transfer
properly.
It could just be a font issu
--- Steve Hall wrote:
> From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 12:54 pm
> > Steve Hall wrote:
> > > From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 11:58 am
> > > >
> > > > I often have to paste from Word for Windows
> into vim/gvim
> > > > (cygwin). Some characters don't transfer
> properly.
> > >
> >
On 2/9/07, ben lieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some characters don't transfer properly. Most annoyingly is that a
single quote ( ' ) turns into this: ¿
That's not actually a single quote; what you're seeing is Word's
"smart quote" feature, which tries to do begin- and end-quotes. Like
`` and '
From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 12:54 pm
> Steve Hall wrote:
> > From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 11:58 am
> > >
> > > I often have to paste from Word for Windows into vim/gvim
> > > (cygwin). Some characters don't transfer properly.
> >
> > It could just be a font issue, make sure
>Thanks for the feedback. Well, this is kind of over my head. I guess a better
>question is why can't vi handle that character (or others)? Is this an encoding
>thing? Both 'encoding' and 'fileencoding' are set to 'Latin1'. Could this be my
>problem? I would figure that vi would internally convert
--- ben lieb wrote:
> I asked this question before, but it wasn't really
> resolved. I often
> have to paste from Word for Windows into vim/gvim
> (cygwin).
>
> Some characters don't transfer properly. Most
> annoyingly is that a
> single quote ( ' ) turns into this: ¿
>
> Is there an easy way
>I asked this question before, but it wasn't really resolved. I often
>have to paste from Word for Windows into vim/gvim (cygwin).
>Some characters don't transfer properly. Most annoyingly is that a
>single quote ( ' ) turns into this: ¿
>Is there an easy way around this?
Iirr, M$W uses directio
From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 11:58 am
>
> I asked this question before, but it wasn't really resolved. I often
> have to paste from Word for Windows into vim/gvim (cygwin).
>
> Some characters don't transfer properly. Most annoyingly is that a
> single quote ( ' ) turns into this: ¿
>
