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From: "Bence Fábián" <begnoc@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme: single quotes and hyphens
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:22:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOCRf5XTAMxEbzQ-9spAyKX7R2YHo3=Gtj4FiRD=5cidYCsqvA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOCRf5U6NKAa7=LEjXrGVe+xuwrHY=ZBHz2tJ5=ZDXYNQk=9+g@mail.gmail.com>

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2013/12/14 Bence Fábián <begnoc@gmail.com>

> It's your keyboard layout. acme does no such thing to my knowledge.
> Also it has nothing to do with the font. I assume you use p9p acme
> on Mac OS X based on your last letter. So I can't help you more.
>
>
> 2013/12/14 Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> While working with acme I had a problem with spell checking.
>>  Investigating, I discovered that my setup of acme is not using normal
>> single quotes or hyphens.  Instead of inserting what all other editors
>> insert when I hit my single quote or dash keys, acme is inserting some
>> other (2 byte?) character.  I understand unicode but I am American-English.
>>  My compiler and spell checker expect single byte, standard ASCII codes for
>> dash and single quotes.  I absolutely can't use acme like this.
>>
>> I am using the standard font.  Is there a way for me to correct this
>> behavior?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Blake McBride
>>
>>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-14 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-14 17:52 Blake McBride
2013-12-14 18:15 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-14 18:22   ` Bence Fábián [this message]
2013-12-14 18:36   ` Blake McBride
2013-12-14 18:40     ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-14 19:22       ` Blake McBride
2013-12-14 19:30         ` Rubén Berenguel

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