On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:12:21 -0500 Nick Dokos wrote: > Sharon Kimble writes: > > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:28:46 -0500 > > Nick Dokos wrote: > > > >> Sharon Kimble 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. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, emacs 24.3.50.1 Registered Linux user 561944