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

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

Thanks a lot Pete for this valuable information!

St

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 03.08.2006 um 12:18 schrieb std:
>
> > 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.
>
> Depends - I use ISO Latin-9/ISO 8859-15 in LaTeX, because then I can
> see € (ISO Latin-1 does not have the Euro currency), my usual
> environment is UTF-8 based. GNU Emacs 22.0.50 still is not perfect in
> UTF-8 use (a month name like Mär in dired is displayed as 'Mär',
> file names appear as 'RGB aÌ\210oÌ\210uÌ\210æÃ\206UÌ\210OÌ
> \210AÌ210.txt' or 'Perl_und_BuÌ\210cher'), the Unicode Emacs 23.0.0
> performs better, so I'd recommend so stay with some 8 bit encoding
> like ISO Latin-9/ISO 8859-15. And use UTF-8 or UTF-16 for data
> exchange with MS Windows XP applications. Both encodings are
> "representations" of a file's contents. UTF-8 uses 8 bit words to
> code this contents, usually using three or two of these words for
> each character, only in case of ASCII or ISO Latin-1 use one such
> word suffices. UTF-16 uses 16 bit words - so it can address the first
> 64 K characters in Unicode uniformly, although it makes a difference
> in which sequence/direction the two octets of bits are read, BE or
> LE. Behind the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), UTF-8 and UTF-16 need
> to use 32 bits to address the Unicode characters - just as UTF-32
> uses from the start. But of course each of these three systems uses
> its own codes in this range(s)/plane(s) ...
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>    Pete
> 
> Bake Pizza not war!