Michael McConville wrote: > 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?
(Or, preferably, just use the 'locale' command.)
