[LC++]cut-and-paste of code problems (character 0240)

[Dr Mark H Phillips]

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 19:06, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
> > >From a search on google, it seems that character 0240 is
> > a "non-breaking space in ISO 8859-1".  It seems that my mail
> > reader (evolution) introduced these.  I can get around
> 
> Not the right solution, but you can always add something to
> your Makefile that looks like:
> 
> %.o: %.cc
> 	sed -e s/\0240/ /g $< > /tmp/foo
> 	gcc /tmp.foo
> 
> Obviously flawed in execution, flaky in concept, but .... :)

Yes, a hack which might work, but not an ideal solution.

It seems to me that the fundamental problem is that the 
Evolution mail reader converts ascii text into ISO-8859-1.

Evolution does have the ability to change
"view -> character encoding", but the choices don't include
ascii.  They do include UNICODE UTF-7, which I thought might
work, but when I selected that, the problem of 0240 characters
still remained.

I don't really understand the differences between the various
encodings, except that some seem to cater for languages other
than English.

I'm still thinking there must be a way of getting Evolution
to display in simple ascii, but I haven't found it yet.

Cheers,

Mark.

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