Re: replacing characters and whacky trans-buffer conversion

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.03.2007 um 08:38 schrieb Matthew Flaschen:

> Peter Dyballa wrote:
> > A malfunction in
> > GNOME? (At least I had once such problems in Fedora Core 1.)
> FWIW, I'm running Thunderbird and emacs 21.4 on gnewsense-kde and have
> the same behavior.

Then it looks more like a malfunction in Thunderbird ...

Ken, the original poster, is using Thunderbird 2.0pre (X11/20070214),  
you are using Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070104) – or you need to  
tell Thunderbird that you are composing in UTF-8. I think in this  
millennium the modern Linuxen use UTF-8 internally, and when a  
client, such as Thunderbird, claims to be UTF-8 aware, then the X  
selection is not converted – which would be Thunderbird's task,  
because it's Thunderbird who "knows" which encodings are used inside  
its "buffers."


(I found Thunderbird a bit troublesome in its way to handle  
encodings. If I would use it more often than once in a month I would  
have written a few bug reports.)

--
Greetings

  Pete

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