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Different problem, but someone who knows about unicode will probably know this -

When I paste from microsoft documents into putty, characters will often be transformed to weird versions. Example - emdash is a different character to '-'. It comes through as a weird tilda character instead of a dash. Mmm. Frustating.

Is there a robust program you can run on putty to catch such type and flatten it to ascii?



I use Linux but there are similar problems, I usually will paste text like that into sublime to remove all the special formatting, then re-copy paste it. I also found this stack overflow post, which mentions a program (puretext) that maps win+v to do a text only paste: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/122404/how-to-copy-and-pa...


Does Ctrl+Shift+v (paste without formatting) work?




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