Re: Pasting into emacs..with certain characters..

[harel barzilai]

Hi,

Mostly I am copying from my browser, which is firefox. Articles on the
web etc..having
quotes, single quotes, dashes, things like that. That accounts for 95%+
of my
copying-from locations if not 100%.

Where I'm copying into is emacs 21 (latest is 21.4.1) on my
dreamhost.com
account into which I ssh or telnet...I was using the standard terminal
on
Xanxros, but I just switched from Xandros to Ubuntu for my home OS..but
the same
things happened on my office computer last year (which was running
windows..I'm
on sabbatical out of state so I can't look up the exact windows ssh
client right now..)
so it doesn't seem to matter which ssh/telnet client to use...but if
there is a client
to use on linux that (a) has nice features overall as an ssh client
and (b) you know from experience doesn't have a problem being
pasted-into
from "rich" text copied from a browser, that would be great, that would
be exactly what I could use. Thanks,
Harel

Jason Rumney Jason Rumney wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Please provide the specific details: on what OS you run the ssh
> > client, which ssh client is that, and what version of Emacs runs on
> > the GNU/Linux system to which you login via ssh.
>
> Also, what program are you pasting the quotes and dashes from?
>
> My initial suspicion is that these are not normal quotes and dashes,
> but characters from the win-1252 codepage that are in the code point
> range 128-159 (decimal), and your ssh client is assuming input in
> iso-8859-1 where that code range is reserved for control characters
> with the high bit set, so it strips the high bit and passes a control
> character through to Emacs.