Thanks Eli for all your efforts ! It is simple. When copying a text in arabic (see pictures) and pasting in the emacs buffer, the result is a series of "?" characters (see resu.jpg). I tried decode-coding-region (with utf-8, utf-16, and latin-1) without succes. ----- Mail Original ----- De: "Eli Zaretskii" À: mhibti@free.fr Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Envoyé: Mardi 7 Septembre 2010 05h03:07 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support > Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:59:48 +0200 (CEST) > From: mhibti@free.fr > Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > - I have problems with copy/paste arabic text but I guess this may be a coding issue. Thanks for testing. Would you please describe the problems you have with copy/paste? There should be no problems with encoding on Windows, as Emacs uses UTF-16 automatically to copy/paste text on Windows.