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workaround for ay circumflex
This is not a correct fix.
  is indeed correct and displays as a space.
Problem is utf-8 encoding vs unicode --if you hit a page
that claims utf-8 as its encoding, you will get the above
problem.
>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry Sievers <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Jerry> hello friends. earlier, i posted asking how to
Jerry> quit hearing ay circumflex in w3 buffers.
Jerry> well, i had a look into the matter and find that
Jerry> it's the HTML entity amper nbsp, the non
Jerry> breakable space that w3 is displaying as octal
Jerry> 240 which i guess is an A with a hat over it in
Jerry> some char set.
Jerry> found that in w3-vars.el, there is a mapping of
Jerry> nbsp to decimal 160, the same as the octal char i
Jerry> was getting.
Jerry> so, for what it's worth, i changed the 160 to a
Jerry> 32 for a plain space and this seems to work ok.
Jerry> not sure what might be the ramifications of this
Jerry> in the long run.
Jerry> here's the old and new line in my w3-vars.el
Jerry> file;
Jerry> ; (nbsp . 160) (nbsp . 32)
Jerry> but be advised, i byte compiled the file and even
Jerry> did a super quit and restart of w3 and still the
Jerry> problem persisted. then, fully restarted emacs
Jerry> and finally, no ay circumflex!
Jerry> happy with this solution for now. please let me
Jerry> know if i should have gone about this another
Jerry> way.
Jerry> good night.--
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