From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unicode support for the MS Windows clipboard Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:30:22 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <9681-Thu27May2004100522+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <3405-Wed28Jul2004064514+0300-eliz@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091014293 18387 80.91.224.253 (28 Jul 2004 11:31:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:31:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 28 13:31:27 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bpmec-00026X-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:31:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bpmhl-0005tm-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:34:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bpmhc-0005tU-NA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:34:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bpmhb-0005tA-7Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:34:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bpmhb-0005t7-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.151] (helo=mail.epost.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bpmdy-0007fU-OR; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:30:47 -0400 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.30) by mail.epost.de (7.1.026.1) id 4105C1A5000276DD; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:30:46 +0200 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <3405-Wed28Jul2004064514+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2004 06:45:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26046 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26046 Hi Eli, "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > Right. The Unicode mode of the Windows clipboard is not really a > coding-system, as it cannot be used in any other context. I don't get you? utf-16le is a regular coding system that certainly can be used in any other context. It is not special at all, quite the contrary, it is more or less basic. > Therefore, I think we should have a w32-clipboard-encoding-mode or > some such, not a coding-system. We could decide not to use selection-coding-system at all. In that case we probably don't need any variable at all, just trusting the system to give us the right information. It was my understanding though, that some localized versions of Windows may need this kind of configuration. I know for sure that there used to be wide-spread versions of Windows in Russia, which were modified and in which encoding didn't work regularly. This was ten years ago, so I don't know what the state of things is today. benny