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> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:13:02 +0100
> From: Henning Rust <hrust@pik-potsdam.de>
> 
> Trying to paste text with spacial characters like
> 
>     "ÄÖÜ"
> 
> from Klipper into Emacs results in:
> 
>     "^[%/1\200\216iso8859-15^BÄÖÜ"
> 
> I set the mule language environment to "german".
> Interestingly enough, it works the other way round, pasting text copied 
> from emacs to other applicatios.
> Does anyone know how to handle this?

This encoding is called ``extended segments''.  Upgrade to Emacs 21.3,
which has an optional support for it (etc/NEWS explains how to set
that up).

Btw, Klipper is generally bad: there are entries about that in
etc/PROBLEMS.  So perhaps you shouldn't use it at all...