From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cut&past Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:50:38 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1139932025.183721.148760@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <20060214201851.GC5806@free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140032086 23171 80.91.229.2 (15 Feb 2006 19:34:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:34:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 15 20:34:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F9SPe-00085m-2k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:34:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F9SPR-00083N-AW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:33:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F9PvI-0003kZ-G2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:54:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F9Pty-0002AH-72 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:53:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F9PtM-0001NV-PC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:52:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F9PyI-00071q-RL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:57:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F9PsX-0007Fm-Uw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:51:46 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:51:45 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:51:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20060214201851.GC5806@free.fr> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33208 Archived-At: François Gannaz wrote: > I had difficulties pasting japanese text in Emacs, I tried many things > until I installed emacs-snapshot where it worked out of the box. > But if you're pasting "normal" text, you don't need Emacs CVS for it. I've had some luck frobbing this variable to match the character set encoding of the web page I'm pasting from (using Firefox): ,----[ C-h v selection-coding-system RET ] | selection-coding-system's value is iso-latin-1 | | Documentation: | Coding system for communicating with other X clients. | When sending or receiving text via cut_buffer, selection, and clipboard, | the text is encoded or decoded by this coding system. | The default value is `compound-text-with-extensions'. `---- -- Kevin Rodgers