[Linux-disciples] Can't copy some text from Mozilla

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:06:14PM -0600, Karl Sokol wrote:
> 1)  What is the apparent reason behind surrounding locations with all that
> code?

Those are Microsoft-specific HTML tags. Presumably the
original documents were written in Frontpage (does one
actually author documents in Frontpage? I forget) or in MS
Word.

Microsoft is really bad about that kind of tagging. HTML
TIDY does some work to clean up MS junk:
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

> 2)  Is there a benefit (like a hyperlink etc.) that I am missing out on from
> Mozilla?

Not sure if I quite know what you mean. Are you asking
whether

1) there's some feature in Moz that you're not aware of;
2) using Mozilla is losing you some cut-and-paste functions
   that you'd have in other browsers; or
3) something else?

> 3)  Is there a way to copy it?  I have the extension "copy plain text" for
> Mozilla, but I do not like to use it because I like the paragraph breaks and
> the bold emphasis for the responses etc.

I had some copy-and-paste problems for a while when my
locale was set to 'us-ascii'; changing it to utf-8 did the
trick. Try doing

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

then scrolling down until you see 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8'.
Select that one -- and any other locales you want to include
on your machine. You may need to take additional steps to
make UTF-8 the default character set for your locale, but
obviously you won't have to do that if UTF-8 is your only
locale.

I believe you'll then need to reboot to get the locale to
kick in everywhere, though you may not (probably don't) have
to.

If UTF-8 is already set up, you can follow Adam's
instructions on changing your locale if you're a non-root
user:
http://lists.bostoncoop.net/pipermail/linux-disciples/2005-July/001435.html

Once all that's done, see if your cut-and-paste problems go
away.

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