Re: emacs 22 on win XP, selection-coding-system, and copy & paste outside emacs

["std" <stdecara@gmail.com>]

Following your advice, I settled down in .emacs, which does the job
(prefer-coding-system 'latin-9)
(set-clipboard-coding-system 'latin-9)

Thanks again

By the way, is latin-9 a smart choice? (compared to latin-1, or other
utf-8 or -16...). I have no idea on these things.

St.

std wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the hint!
> Now it works fine. My .emacs now has only
> (set-language-environment 'latin-9)
> (set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-16le-dos)
>
> Cheers,
>
> St.
>
> Peter Dyballa wrote:
> > Am 03.08.2006 um 11:26 schrieb std:
> >
> > > (standard-display-european t)
> >
> > Throw that away! This belongs to to GNU Emacs 19 or such. set-
> > language-environment is another dangerous relict. Try prefer-coding-
> > system or set environment variables like LC_CTYPE.
> >
> > There are also set-clipboard-coding-system and set-selection-coding-
> > system.
> >
> > --
> > Greetings
> >
> >    Pete
> >
> >    Basic, n.:
> > A programming language.  Related to certain social diseases in
> > that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.