Bingo, could that be because I use tcsh and probably switched to it before I installed Abiword?
locale says: LANG= LC_COLLATE="C" LC_CTYPE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_ALL= On 10/21/15, Michael McConville <mm...@mykolab.com> wrote: > 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.) > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
