Re: Console-window Emacs stops responding when pasting clipboard

[era@iki.fi]

On 26 Feb 2004 07:56:21 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> posted to
bug-gnu-emacs:
 > Thanks for the report, but I cannot reproduce this.  I don't have
 > Mozilla on the Windows box where I tried this, so I used Explorer to
 > display the Web page you mentioned and Emacs 21.2 running on a
 > GNU/Linux system to which I logged using PuTTY.  I had no problems
 > pasting the paragraph you mentioned into Emacs.
 > So I think more digging on your part is required.  For example, is
 > Mozilla necessary to reproduce this problem, or any other Windows
 > application will do?

It could even depend on the Mozilla version. V1.6 on a Linux box does
not display anything where the dashes are (apparently) supposed to be,
and of course cutting and pasting that part doesn't include the
missing dashes. I can't even see them in "view source". But here is
the pertinent part of the HTML sources:

 $ lynx -dump -source 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0%2c7792%2c1152570%2c00.html' |
 > fold -w 72 |
 > fgrep -C "everyone knows everyone" |
 > od -c -t x1
 0000000   n   g       E   s   t   o   n   i   a   n   s   .   <   P   >
         6e 67 20 45 73 74 6f 6e 69 61 6e 73 2e 3c 50 3e
 0000020   "   I   t       a   l   l       r   a   n       a       b   i
         22 49 74 20 61 6c 6c 20 72 61 6e 20 61 20 62 69
 0000040   t       o   u   t       o   f       c   o   n   t   r   o   l
         74 20 6f 75 74 20 6f 66 20 63 6f 6e 74 72 6f 6c
 0000060       a   f   t   e   r       a       w   h   i   l   e   .    
         20 61 66 74 65 72 20 61 20 77 68 69 6c 65 2e 20
 0000100   M   y       p   a   r   t   n  \n   e   r       w   a   s    
         4d 79 20 70 61 72 74 6e 0a 65 72 20 77 61 73 20
 0000120   o   u   t       i   n       t   h   e       c   a   s   i   n
         6f 75 74 20 69 6e 20 74 68 65 20 63 61 73 69 6e
 0000140   o   s       e   v   e   r   y       n   i   g   h   t   .    
         6f 73 20 65 76 65 72 79 20 6e 69 67 68 74 2e 20
 0000160   I   t       g   o   t       t   o       t   h   e       p   o
         49 74 20 67 6f 74 20 74 6f 20 74 68 65 20 70 6f
 0000200   i   n   t       w   h   e   r   e       t   h   e       m   a
         69 6e 74 20 77 68 65 72 65 20 74 68 65 20 6d 61
 0000220   n  \n   a   g   e   r   s       w   e   r   e       c   o   m
         6e 0a 61 67 65 72 73 20 77 65 72 65 20 63 6f 6d
 0000240   i   n   g       t   o       s   e   e       m   e       ­    
         69 6e 67 20 74 6f 20 73 65 65 20 6d 65 20 ad 20
 0000260   e   v   e   r   y   o   n   e       k   n   o   w   s       e
         65 76 65 72 79 6f 6e 65 20 6b 6e 6f 77 73 20 65
 0000300   v   e   r   y   o   n   e       i   n       t   h   i   s    
         76 65 72 79 6f 6e 65 20 69 6e 20 74 68 69 73 20
 0000320   t   o   w   n       ­       a   n   d  \n       s   a   y   i
         74 6f 77 6e 20 ad 20 61 6e 64 0a 20 73 61 79 69
 0000340   n   g       h   e       i   s       l   o   s   i   n   g    
         6e 67 20 68 65 20 69 73 20 6c 6f 73 69 6e 67 20
 0000360   t   o   o       m   u   c   h   .       $   1   0   ,   0   0
         74 6f 6f 20 6d 75 63 68 2e 20 24 31 30 2c 30 30
 0000400   0       a       n   i   g   h   t   .       N   o   w       h
         30 20 61 20 6e 69 67 68 74 2e 20 4e 6f 77 20 68
 0000420   e       i   s       d   r   i   v   i   n   g       a       c
         65 20 69 73 20 64 72 69 76 69 6e 67 20 61 20 63
 0000440   a   b      \n   i   n       E   d   i   n   b   u   r   g   h
         61 62 20 0a 69 6e 20 45 64 69 6e 62 75 72 67 68
 0000460   ,   "       s   a   y   s       G   u   n   n   .   <   P   >
         2c 22 20 73 61 79 73 20 47 75 6e 6e 2e 3c 50 3e
 0000500   A   f   t   e   r       N   i   m   e   t   a       B   a   a
         41 66 74 65 72 20 4e 69 6d 65 74 61 20 42 61 61
 0000520   r   ,       G   u   n   n       a   n   d       h   i   s    
         72 2c 20 47 75 6e 6e 20 61 6e 64 20 68 69 73 20
 0000540   p   a   r   t   n   e   r       s   e   t      \n
         70 61 72 74 6e 65 72 20 73 65 74 20 0a
 0000555

It looks to me like the (possibly) offending character would be an
0xAD, i.e. the ISO-8859-1 soft hyphen. (Sheesh, somebody is using that
in lieu of an em dash? Astonishing.)

Interestingly, in Mozilla's "view source" I see the spaces on both
sides of the (suppressed) hyphens, but copying and pasting from there
into an emacs -nw inside an xterm canonicalizes those to a single
space each.

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