Re: \200\231 showing in org-mode post

[Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net>]

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:12:21 -0500
Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:28:46 -0500
> > Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net> 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?
> 
I don't know, but I've just created a new 'test2.org' file and pasted
the exact same paragraph which showed the aberrant behaviour, and it
worked and imported with no problems! What is shown in the org-file
is /exactly/ the same as the source document!

So, as the original document was an org2blog posting, I've just created
a new blog posting and pasted the same paragraph into it. And again,
its been imported with no problems, with no difference between
the source document and the blog posting. 

So I don’t know whats going on, or what really cured it, but its now
working perfectly!

Thanks
Sharon.
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