Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

[Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net>]

On 4/30/2013 2:28 AM, songbird wrote:
>    when cutting and pasting from evince
> to a terminal the process is translating
> a "um" into a "mm"  which is a signifcant
> change for a technical document.
>
>    the source document used was downloaded from:
>
> "http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732/pdf/srep01732.pdf";
>
>    search for the phrase
>
> "particle size between 200–500 um"
>
>    and copy and paste it to any text terminal,
> vi'd document, or even LibreOffice doc.  all
> do the same thing and translate it from um to
> mm.
>
>    so if someone can replicate this it would
> help.  if not, then i'd be stumped because
> i have no familiarity with cut and paste
> underpinnings...
>
>    thanks much,
>
>
>    songbird

That's not a 'u' - it's the lower case greek letter mu, which is 
probably not in the charset you're using (sorry, I can't test it right now).