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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:55:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pqdxq47t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F29F75A.9070301@mousecar.com>

> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:39:22 -0500
> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
> 
> > 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)

Not a good idea, I'm afraid: the UTF-8 support in Emacs 21 left a lot
to be desired.

> 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.

Can you show the original text, and then what you have after pasting?
I need to see which characters aren't pasted correctly.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-02  3:55 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
2012-02-02  3:55     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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