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   Krishna Myneni to sjack   
   Re: copying and pasting from pdf to Fort   
   01 Jul 24 18:45:10   
   
   From: krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org   
      
   On 7/1/24 07:13, sjack wrote:   
   > Krishna Myneni  wrote:   
   >> Yesterday, I learned a good lesson to not copy and paste text from a pdf   
   >> into the Forth environment. There can be hidden characters when doing   
   >> so, and then a word fails because the input isn't correct.   
   >   
   > I've encountered that problem often enough over many years to   
   > get a feel for it as when action doesn't match logic.   
   > Vim has a ':list' option that will display non-printiables   
   > and for block files just re-write the suspect line. Also   
   > have ADUMP that prints text and displays any non-printable   
   > as '^nn', where nn was the value of the non-printable.   
   >   
      
      
   No display difference when I used :SET LIST in Vim. But I found the   
   issue was the difference between a unicode minus sign and an ASCII minus   
   sign -- see above.   
      
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