Re: [Orgmode] Strange character inserted by org-capture

[Giovanni Ridolfi]

Paul Mead <address@hidden> writes:

Hi, Paulm
>
> I have the following setup in org-capture:
>
> (setq org-capture-templates (quote (
>                                     ("i" "Invoice" entry (file+headline "~/My 
> Dropbox/gtd/invoicing.org" "Invoicing")
>                                      "* TODO 
> %^{Supplier|supplier1|supplier2|supplier3} %^{Account} invoice %^{Invoice 
> number} - £%^{Amount Ex VAT} - %^{Date (dd mmm yy)}\n%u"
> ))))
>
> I am experiencing some strange behaviour when using the last option
> (Invoice) on my XP machine. The template inserts a strange character (I
> don't recognise it but it looks like an upper case A with a symbol above
> it) immediately before the £ sign.

Also my template with the "÷" character showed the same behaviour.

I think it's a problem of file encoding. 

+ Is your .emacs utf-8? I mean the file where you store the 
                       "(setq org-capture-templates (quote"
+ is invoicing.org utf-8?

C-x RET f utf-8   # change file encoding

hth
Giovanni