Woodchuck wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 10:31:54AM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> One thing that irritates me is that I'll copy something from a site in >> ff and paste it into webmail (squirrel/ensign, if that matters); then, in >> the evening, when I want to forward it to one or more of my lists, using >> t-bird, I have to clean it up *all* the time: 2-3 characters replacing >> ",' and -. I can't seem to find anything in either the webmail options >> (which I have set to plain text), or kde (thinking of the buffer it's held in), >> to affect this. I'm googling, but haven't seen what the effect of >> changing the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf from en_US.UTF-8 to, say, en_US, >> or maybe even, if that's an option, ASCII.... >> >> Anyone know? >> >> mark, almost ready to install and play with a friend from a >> techie mailing list's email tool, running on top of mutt.... > > Try export LANG=C > That cuts out a lot of the crap, and restores, among other things, > a sane collating order. (A-Z collate before a-z, not case-blind.) > That should be in root's profile, at the very least. Hmmm, let me try that tonight. It might help, esp. given that, having seen X issues over the years, I run at home in runlevel 3, and then startx.... > -- > You can make a lovely hat out of previously-used aluminum foil. I can think of a lot of folks who should have those as warnings to the rest of us.... mark