From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:39:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F29F75A.9070301@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ty3ap7t1.fsf@gnu.org>
On 02/01/2012 04:23 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:41:42 -0500
>> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
>>
>> Just to be comprehensive I'll state at the outset that I'm using Linux
>> (CentOS 5.7), so this is the environment emacs is working in. From a
>> shell I get this:
>>
>> $ set|grep -i lang
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> Now I pull up a webpage with some French on it:
>> <http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty>. Examining the
>> source code of this page, I see at the top:
>>
>> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
>>
>> So this page is presented in UTF-8.
>>
>> Firefox is also set to present pages in UTF-8: View -> Character
>> Encoding -> UTF-8
>>
>> But when I copy and paste the text from "Francais" to "invisible, 1964)"
>> inclusive, many of the characters aren't rendered correctly; I get
>> "garbage" characters in their stead, e.g., the second-to-last line
>> appears something like this:
>>
>> * L^[$(B!G^[$(C)+^[(Bil et l^[$(B!G^[(Besprit, Gallimard, 1960
>>
>> Other lines are improperly rendered also.
>>
>> I'd like to fix this. And if possible understand why this doesn't work,
>> so I might be able to diagnose these problems for myself.
>
> What is your value of selection-coding-system? Try setting it to
> something like ctext-with-extensions.
Thanks, Eli,
Immediately prior to doing the copy-and-paste I ran all of these:
(set-language-environment 'UTF-8)
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
(setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8)
(setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
(setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(modify-coding-system-alist 'process "\\*shell\\*\\'" 'utf-8-unix)
Following your advice, I ran
(set-selection-coding-system 'ctext-with-extensions)
and then did the same copy-and-paste again. This got more of the
characters correct, but not all of them. So we're a lot closer.... Got
another suggestion?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 2:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-01 20:41 garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs ken
2012-02-01 21:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-02 2:39 ` ken [this message]
2012-02-02 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-02 20:00 ` ken
2012-02-03 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-06 18:01 ` different distro [was: Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs] ken
2012-02-06 20:15 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-02-01 21:29 ` garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs Philipp Haselwarter
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