Re: cut-n-paste fails from webpage with "emdash" character

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On 28 Oct 2002, Ryan Camick wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:58, Oisin C. Feeley wrote:

> > I was trying to cut'n'paste with the mouse from the webapge
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-dhcp-configuring-server.html
> > into an xterm, and found that the "emdash" characters (the extra-long
> > hyphens represented by the HTML character reference — prevent
> > pasting of the text if they are included in the selection.

This happens with  ‐o -- some other rendition of dash 
in Gnome -- and is said to be expected behaviour:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76181

Doesn't seem right to me, either.

> Confirmed.  Same results here.  Cut'n'paste to xterm as specified
> doesn't work.  I can successfully cut'n'paste that line to XChat or
> Evolution, but the "emdash" is replaced by a ? or _ in those programs.
> 
> I have no idea why.  Just wanted to confirm this problem was not only
> your system.




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