Re: emacs, umlauts, x-windows text mark and paste

[erasurehead <erasurehead@goatrance.net>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> What do you get if you say
> 
>   C-x RET X raw-text RET
> 
> before pasting?  Please tell what characters are pasted into the Emacs
> buffer in this case.

same thing. I mark this text in mozilla:

Minuten köcheln lassen. Diese Soße sollte weder zu dick noch zu dünn sein


and I get this in emacs:

Minuten k\x{00F6}cheln lassen. Diese So\x{00DF}e sollte weder zu dick 
noch zu d\x{00FC}nn sein

and the control sequences aren't one character, they are in the buffer 
as literal (e.g.) "\x{00F6}"  consisting of the 8 ascii characters you see.

> 
> Also, if you can find some tool that will show you the contents of the
> X selection buffer after you cut/copy from a gtk2 application, please
> tell what does that tool show.  Perhaps by looking at the contents of
> the selection buffer we will be able to guess what kind of encoding is
> used.

I'll try to find one.

> 
> I'm also slightly confused by the fact that someone told in this
> thread they have no problems pasting from Mozilla.

It works properly for german language stuff if I log in setting the 
session language to german (who knows what gnome does with the gtk2 
pango stuff in this case), but then it doesn't copy other lanquages 
properly. It also doesn't work if i set LC_ALL to any type of german or 
utf locale in a terminal window and then start emacs, though I can 
verify that this has an effect since it changes the default encoding for 
saving a buffer.


   Could it be
> something in the setup of your system?  Does it help to invoke Emacs
> with "emacs -q --no-site-file"?

No. same thing.