Re: [tlug] Stymied by emacs character display

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Stuart,


On 20/2/2019 7:47 AM, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> So, I was getting nowhere just looking at the LaTeX error message so I
> found the problem line in the LaTeX source that is causing the problem.
> This is what it looks like:
>
> included in teachersâ<U+0080><U+0099> evaluations.
>
> The whole string from the a-circumflex to <U+0099> was originally a
> single apostrophe. And the weird thing is that it was just an
> apostrophe in the output file, but became this string in the file
> produced by the python script. I have no idea why, but I now know how
> to deal with it, so I don't care anymore.


I've seen at least two versions of the apostrophe in 
Microsoft Word.  The first is the one we all know -- looks 
like a small vertical line; the second is the one that you 
saw which Microsoft Word "auto-corrects" to make -- looks 
more like a small "9" and what we would put if we were 
hand-writing an apostrophe.

I see this almost every time I copy and paste source code 
from Microsoft Word.  Compilers and interpreters don't 
accept it, but one needs to look really closely to see the 
difference...

Anyway, good to hear that you solved your problem!

Ray