character issue

["Robert D. Crawford" <rdc1x@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is an issue I have had for a while (not sure how long) but have
just now gotten to the point where I have time to try to fix it.

Let me get version information out of the way first.

GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) of 2007-09-16 on t40
emacs-w3m-version is 1.4.218
w3m version w3m/0.5.1+cvs-1.973

I am getting the following type of output in web pages:

Freedom?s Watch, a deep-pocketed conservative group led by two former
senior White House officials, made an audacious debut in late August
when it began a $15 million advertising campaign designed to maintain
Congressional support for President Bush?s troop increase in Iraq.

The question marks seem to be primarily apostrophes.  I do not have
samples that include other characters but I am sure I can get them if
needed.  There are some characters that still show up as octals.  The
above sample was generated with the following variables set:

w3m-coding-system  iso-8859-1
w3m-default-coding-system  iso-8859-1
w3m-input-coding-system  iso-8859-1
w3m-output-coding-system  iso-8859-1
w3m-terminal-coding-system  iso-8859-1

The effect is the same if set to utf-8 as well.

I don't have this problem in w3. Here is the same paragraph with the
octal characters changed to plain-text:

Freedom\371s Watch, a deep-pocketed conservative group led by two former
senior White House officials, made an audacious debut in late August
when it began a $15 million advertising campaign designed to maintain
Congressional support for President Bush\371s troop increase in Iraq.

I can live with the octal characters as my speech synth does not read
them.  

Any help you can give to help me to solve this problem will be greatly
appreciated.  

Thank you,
rdc
-- 
Robert D. Crawford                                      rdc1x@xxxxxxxxxxx

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