Sharon Kimble <boudic...@talktalk.net> writes: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:28:46 -0500 > Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sharon Kimble <boudic...@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? Nick