From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cut buffers and character encoding
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:10:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45537D3A.5080400@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y7qldq6h.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com>
Romain Francoise skrev:
> Hi,
>
> I received a bug report about Emacs 22.0.90 stating that Emacs doesn't
> do charset conversion when receiving text from a cut buffer. From the
> report:
>
> ,----
> | When I paste the cut buffer in an Emacs window in UTF-8 locales, Emacs
> | doesn't do any charset conversion. This problem occurs with both X and
> | GTK versions.
> |
> | To reproduce the problem:
> | 1. In UTF-8 locales: emacs -q
> | 2. Open an xterm.
> | 3. In the xterm, type 'éèê'.
> | 4. Select 'éèê' in the xterm.
> | 5. Quit the xterm (now, 'éèê' is no longer in the primary selection,
> | only in the cut buffer, which Emacs supports).
> | 6. Paste in Emacs (middle mouse button).
> |
> | I get:
> |
> | \351\350\352
> |
> | instead of:
> |
> | éèê
> `----
>
> This is in apparent contradiction to what the docstring of the
> `selection-coding-system' variable says:
>
> ,----[ C-h v selection-coding-system RET ]
> | Documentation:
> | Coding system for communicating with other X clients.
> | When sending or receiving text via cut_buffer, selection, and clipboard,
> | the text is encoded or decoded by this coding system.
> `----
>
The text encoding for cut buffers are defined to be ISO-Latin-1, so
selection-coding-systemshould not have any effect. That said, we could decode
data from cut buffers from Latin-1 and encode to Latin-1 when putting data in
there.
But cut buffers are obsolete anyway, so I vote for just fixing the
documentation and leave it as is.
Other suggestions?
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-09 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-09 7:39 Cut buffers and character encoding Romain Francoise
2006-11-09 19:10 ` Jan D. [this message]
2006-11-09 20:56 ` Romain Francoise
2006-11-10 7:42 ` Jan D.
2006-11-10 10:24 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-11-10 13:39 ` Romain Francoise
2006-11-11 12:40 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-11-12 5:14 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-18 2:23 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-11-18 13:18 ` Jan Djärv
2006-11-20 3:23 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-11-20 7:44 ` Jan Djärv
2006-11-20 7:57 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-11-20 23:58 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-21 12:47 ` Jan Djärv
2006-11-18 16:05 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-10 18:41 ` Richard Stallman
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