Alan Corey wrote:
> In OpenBSD 5.2 (and 5.0, 4.7, 4.3) I've written a lot of emails in
> Abiword (and saved to files, etc) then pasted into gmail (web client
> in Firefox) to send.
>
> In OpenBSD 5.7 when I paste question marks replace the entire message like
> ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> It looks like Abiword's using a character set Firefox doesn't
> recognize. The email sends like that too, it's just question marks on
> the receiving end. ASCII 0x3F.
>
> I can write in Libre Office and paste into Firefox, that's normal.
> OpenBSD 5.8 uses the same Abiword version (3.01) so I assume it will
> work the same way. I don't see any option in Abiword to change
> character sets other than font, that doesn't help. If I paste into
> Firefox anywhere (search box, URL window), I get question marks. Very
> disappointing to see Abiword's now mixed up with Gnome, that may be at
> the root of the problem.
>
> I can't seem to copy from Abiword and paste into Libre Office Writer
> either. Pasting into the Joe editor gives question marks.
I've had problems with Abiword character encodings in the past. The
example I remember is the Unicode in the scale bars.
Can you:
env | egrep '(LANG|LC_)'
And reply with the results?
