From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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 21:14:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83posj2pze.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2016-05-18T17-35-17@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> (message from Karl Voit on Wed, 18 May 2016 17:53:51 +0200)
> 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.
> Can you still show me how I yank and operate (string-replace) only
> on the yanked text?
Turn on transient-mark-mode, I think.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-18 18:14 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 [this message]
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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