Subject: Re: Speaking of string encodings...
From: Patrick Lam (plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 17:41:03 CDT
On 23 Aug 2001, Gabriel Gerhardsson wrote:
> I'm wondering what's being done to cut n' paste interaction with other
> programs.
> If I cut/copy something in AbiWord and paste it in, say, Evolution or
> nedit, some characters (e.g. " and ') is replaced by a questionmark(?).
> I assume that this behavior is caused by different
> character-encodings/codepages in different programs. Is there a planned
> resolution for this or are you still thinking?
That looks like bad smart quote behaviour.
I know that under Linux, Abi will create RTF and text and put those in the
clipboard. I'm not sure how it works.
Try disabling smart quotes and seeing what happens.
pat
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