On Mon, 2022-01-17 at 01:33 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list
wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:03:22 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > the result of copying from Firefox to Vi, then from Vi to Evolution
> 
> This is probably an issue caused by conversion of character encoding
> to/from vi. So the issue likely is neither caused by Firefox nor by
> Evolution. The culprit likely is vi, or more precise, it's most
> likely the user of vi.
> 
> Apart from this The NY Times is seemingly written in Mojibake:
> https://cn.nytimes.com/
> 
> Btw. information similar to
> 
> $ locale | head -1; echo $LANG
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> en_US.utf8
> 
> is more related to the issue, than information about the amount of
> available RAM.
> 
> However, consider to google for vi/vim character encoding. I only
> would use vi in case of need and never ever as clipboard.

I think you have things backward.  Copying through vi fixes the text;
direct copying makes it weird.  Or do misunderstand you.

Anyway:
$ locale | head -1; echo $LANG  
LANG=en_US.US-ASCII
en_US.US-ASCII

-- 
Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan <jonr...@pacbell.net>

 There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.
 --Adam Smith
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