On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:16:16PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > As I posted to this list a while back, I have had to abandon xterm in favor > of gnome-terminal because some aspect of the xorg upgrade made the xterm > font unchangeable. > > One annoyance is that I can't post from a GUI app into gnome-terminal if any > character in the selection is non-ASCII (for instance, an em dash or "real" > apostrophe). Is there any way to force gnome-terminal to convert, say, em > dash into two hyphens and real apostrophes into '? > > BTW, a basic principle of user interface design is that nothing should ever > fail silently. When I try to paste into gnome-terminal with a non-allowed > character, it fails silenty, which is simply wrong. Hi Carl, I just started using mlterm (needs efonts). Maybe try another term. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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