From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cut-and-paste german quotes Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:18:59 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200404290244.LAA27861@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083217010 20280 80.91.224.253 (29 Apr 2004 05:36:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:36:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 29 07:36:42 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJ4Dx-0001N8-00 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:36:42 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJ4Dx-00054M-00 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:36:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BJ4Cx-0001Xy-Tn for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:35:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BJ4Cr-0001WO-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BJ4CK-0001EL-Rb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:35:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.175.24.41] (helo=elvis.franken.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1BJ4CC-0001C5-NX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:34:52 -0400 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1BJ4C9-00054P-00; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:34:49 +0200 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id 65E8BB92B4; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:18:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-Reply-To: <200404290244.LAA27861@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:44:54 +0900 (JST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22332 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22332 Kenichi Handa writes: > 0xd0c8 is a character of charset japanese-jisx0208. Emacs > by default requests a selection of type COMPOUND_TEXT. It > seems that xterm, on responding to it, encodes U+201C into a > character of japanese-jisx0208. It itself is not a bug > because that that character can be mapped to U+201C > according to glibc's charset mapping table. thanks for the explanation. > Please try this: > > (setq x-select-request-type '(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING)) thanks, this helps. > Then Emacs requests a selection of type UTF8_STRING at first. I'm wondering whether this setting would be appropriate as the default on GNU/Linux distributions which set UTF-8 as the system default encoding. -- | ,__o | _-\_<, http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | (*)/'(*)