From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: desktop-read usage and syntax ::error, strange character :: half-SOLVED!!!
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:00:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgniiuio.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cc264947-2d9a-3b70-501c-7e0996731a41@mousecar.com
ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
> ...
> I've been having a longterm
> issue with the German characters: ä ö ü, their capitalized equivalents
> and ß. I can type them into an emacs buffer (and obviously into an
> email composed in Tbird). But if I copy text with any of these
> characters from somewhere else and paste it into emacs, I get
> "garbage" characters in their stead; not so if I paste the same text
> into any other application on my system, e.g., Tbird, vi, bash shell,
> even LibreOffice's Calc. So there's something shakey going on with
> emacs there. I can't say this problem and the one original to this
> email thread come out of the same code, but they do bear some
> resemblance.
>
You probably have to specify the correct encoding of the X selection: go to
Options / Multilingual Environment / Set Coding Systems/ For X Selections/Clipboard
or "C-x RET x" for short. You'll probably have to guess what the encoding should be
based on whatever the previous, unsuccessful, paste did to your buffer :-)
Personally, I set everything to use UTF-8 and have very little trouble, but I cannot
control what some random website will do, so if I need to cut and paste from there
the above method might come in handy.
--
Nick
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-20 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-18 15:46 desktop-read usage and syntax ::error, strange character ken
2017-07-18 17:07 ` Sharon Kimble
2017-07-18 19:29 ` ken
2017-07-19 11:11 ` Sharon Kimble
2017-07-20 20:51 ` ken
2017-07-21 8:18 ` Sharon Kimble
2017-07-18 19:59 ` John Mastro
2017-07-18 21:10 ` desktop-read usage and syntax ::error, strange character :: half-SOLVED!!! ken
2017-07-19 6:46 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-20 22:36 ` ken
2017-07-20 23:00 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
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