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Re: [O] \200\231 showing in org-mode post


From: Nick Dokos
Subject: Re: [O] \200\231 showing in org-mode post
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:12:21 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Sharon Kimble <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:28:46 -0500
> Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Sharon Kimble <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > When pasting from an article on the web into an org-mode buffer, I
>> > start with - 
>> > "In today’s digital age, we are needing more and more passwords to
>> > secure our data and our identity."
>> > and its displayed in the buffer as -
>> > "In todayâ\200\231s digital age, we are needing more and more
>> > passwords to secure our data and our identity."
>> >
>> > In my .emacs I have -
>> > (setq selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
>> > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
>> > (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
>> > with 'LANG=en_GB.UTF-8' being the first line in my locale settings. 
>> >
>> > How do I get it please that it pastes correctly from the desktop
>> > clipboard, and how do I get what is already pasted, and shows the
>> > aberrant behaviour, corrected please?
>> >
>> 
>> If you just open the file in UTF-8, does the ugliness go away?
>> 
> I don't know how to do that, sorry.
>
> But, when I went through my foo.org file correcting them all, they all
> seemed to be either ' or " . So I had a look in my .emacs and found
> that I was using -
> ;; Turn ' and " into ‘posh’ “quotes”
> ;;(setq org-export-with-smart-quotes t)
>
> so I commented it out as you can see, and I'm now just carrying on as
> normal and just waiting to see if that clears it up. 
>

Now I'm *really* confused: org-export-with-smart-quotes only affects how
an org file is exported. What does that have to do with pasting stuff
from the web into an org file?

Nick





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