When I select and copy text from a browser and paste it into a text
editor, all the apostrophes and dashes come out as question marks or
weird things like "\u2019".

What's the fix for this irritating behavior, please?

'env' shows that 'LANG=en_US'.

etch.

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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:05:44AM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote:
> When I select and copy text from a browser and paste it into a text
> editor, all the apostrophes and dashes come out as question marks or
> weird things like "\u2019".
>
> What's the fix for this irritating behavior, please?
>
> 'env' shows that 'LANG=en_US'.

You could try experimenting with locales. en_US.UTF-8 would be my first
choice.

Regards,
Andrei
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:05:44AM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote:
> When I select and copy text from a browser and paste it into a text
> editor, all the apostrophes and dashes come out as question marks or
> weird things like "\u2019".
>
> What's the fix for this irritating behavior, please?
>
> 'env' shows that 'LANG=en_US'.

You could try experimenting with locales. en_US.UTF-8 would be my first
choice.

Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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On 8/6/07, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> You could try experimenting with locales. en_US.UTF-8 would be my first
> choice.

And a most excellent choice it is! Did the trick.

Thank you sir.

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On 8/6/07, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> You could try experimenting with locales. en_US.UTF-8 would be my first
> choice.

And a most excellent choice it is! Did the trick.

Thank you sir.

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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 02:51:04AM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote:
> On 8/6/07, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You could try experimenting with locales. en_US.UTF-8 would be my first
> > choice.
>
> And a most excellent choice it is! Did the trick.
>
> Thank you sir.

Sir? I don't know who you're talking about but I'm glad my idea
ed.

Regards,
Andrei
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