Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> you don't know if you don't ask.
>> appears as - you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask
>
> Someone who knows more about this than I will correct me, but
> I'd guess that you need to try another font, which will display
> that Unicode char.
>
> (When you say "it starts out as", I assume you mean that the
> curly apostrophe char appears OK in the place where you copied
> it from, and not that it appears ephemerally OK in the Emacs
> buffer where you pasted it but then changes to \u2019.)
>
I open a text document in "leafpad" copy to system clipboard and
paste from there to emacs, and the problem shows up.

I open a web page, copy some text to the system clipboard and then
paste it into emacs, and the problem again shows up. 

One commonality, I use "simpleclip" which liaises between the system
clipboard and the emacs buffer.

Sharon.
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