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> Date: 28 Jan 2004 08:27:22 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
> 
> My impression is that decoding of clipboard text is not the problem.
> Rather, I'm guessing that Emacs fetches the clipboard text in a way
> that forces Windows to try to translate it to the current system
> codepage, and that this translation attempt replaces all Cyrillic
> characters with question marks.  The Windows XP clipboard viewer, for
> example, does show the Cyrillic text from the clipboard correctly.  So
> it sounds like there is a way to fetch the text from the clipboard,
> it's just that Emacs somehow doesn't do it right.

After some googling around, it seems that Emacs should use
CF_UNICODETEXT type in clipboard operations, instead of CF_TEXT that
it uses now.