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 22:30:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2016-05-18T22-29-50@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83posj2pze.fsf@gnu.org
* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>
>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 17:53:51 +0200
>>
>> ,----
>> | 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! :-)
>
> You shouldn't set selection-coding-system to any value on MS-Windows,
> just leave it alone. It will work regardless. Setting it to anything
> is asking for trouble, as it forces Emacs to use that encoding instead
> of using UTF-16 when available in the clipboard.
Before I set it to 'utf-16le-dos as suggested by the manual for
Windows, I tested with no value and it did not yank correctly.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-18 20:30 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
2016-05-18 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-18 20:30 ` Karl Voit [this message]
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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