upgrade vs dist-upgrade

[Gary W. Swearingen]

Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> writes:

> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:34 -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
>> 
>> Mario, please tell me what application displayed that manpage that
>> you copied that from.  Or maybe off the WWW in a MSFT browser?
>
> Strange. I copied it from "man aptitude" using the left mouse button,
> and pasted it with the middle mouse button into Evolution (using UTF-8
> as character encoding). 

Well, you didn't tell me what application originally displayed it
(sounds like some terminal emulator), but you probably put your finger
on the problem being "caused" by Evolution and UTF-8.  (According to
what little I know about UTF-8, a three-byte char should start
differently than yours did, but I don't know much about it.)  It
sounds like Evolution replaces two single quotes with one 3-byte UTF-8
character (not MSFT 1252) and my mail reader (gnus/xemacs) doesn't
handle UTF-8 yet, it seems.

Interestingly, konsole and xterm both interprete the codes (after I
extracted them from your message) as what looks like two single
opening quotes and two closing quotes.  UTF-8 must have a single
character which looks like two single quotes instead of a double
quote.  (ISO-8859-* (as on older Linux) would look like two
apostrophes before and two after the quoted text, except these days,
ASCII apostrophes are "supposed" to be vertical marks.)

Something else to investigate.

Thanks.