From: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 24.5.1 has wrong charset on yanked text with Windows (was: Operating on yanked region)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 17:53:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2016-05-18T17-35-17@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20160518123117.GA13317@tuxteam.de
* <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 02:13:52PM +0200, Karl Voit wrote:
>> * Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:
>> >
>> >> When I paste text from a Windows application to my Emacs (running
>> >> mainly Org-mode), I get wrong charset.
>> >>
>> >> For correcting such wrong character sets, I want to write a function
>> >> that corrects the charset.
>> >
>> > I cannot help with your needs,
>>
>> That's OK.
>>
>> Besides the good points regarding charset below, I still need to
>> search&replace some things on the yanked region.
>>
>> > but you should not have to jump through
>> > hoops just to get text encoding right, as long as the originating
>> > application puts Unicode text on clipboard. (And I’m pretty convinced
>> > Outlook does.)
>>
>> How can I test this?
>
> I know very little about Windows these days. But the documentation
> for the variables "selection-coding-system" and
,----
| selection-coding-system is a variable defined in `select.el'.
| Its value is iso-latin-1-dos
| Original value was nil
`----
I once set this to 'utf-8 in my init.el. The Emacs help further
suggests setting it to 'utf-16le-dos instead when running on
Windows. With switching to this setting, the clipboard gets yanked
properly! :-)
> "x-select-request-type" might contain relevant information.
(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING)
... seems legit.
Great, that solves the charset issue.
Thanks very much! :-)
Can you still show me how I yank and operate (string-replace) only
on the yanked text?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-18 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-18 11:07 Operating on yanked region Karl Voit
2016-05-18 11:30 ` Yuri Khan
2016-05-18 12:13 ` Emacs 24.5.1 has wrong charset on yanked text with Windows (was: Operating on yanked region) Karl Voit
2016-05-18 12:31 ` tomas
2016-05-18 15:53 ` Karl Voit [this message]
2016-05-18 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-18 20:30 ` Karl Voit
2016-05-19 4:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-19 8:38 ` tomas
2016-06-09 10:10 ` Karl Voit
2016-06-09 10:18 ` tomas
2016-05-18 13:25 ` Yuri Khan
2016-05-18 18:02 ` Operating on yanked region Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-18 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-09 9:43 ` Karl Voit
2016-06-09 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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