Re: Problem with clipboard

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:34:10 +0700
> From: neverov_dg@nkmk.ru
> 
> I'm running emacs on WinXP and have problems with inserting text from
> clipboard. When I select text in MS Word or Firefox and paste it into
> emacs it inserts symbols in latin-1 encoding, but I want him to insert
> text in windows-1251-dos encoding.
> 
> When I use:
> 
> M-x set-next-selection-coding-system RET windows-1251-dos RET
> 
> and paste text all work fine, but just one time. I try to use
> 
> M-x set-selection-coding-system RET windows-1251-dos RET
> 
> but it doesn't help, text is inserted in latin-1 encoding.
> 
> Encoding-specific section in my .emacs:
> 
> (set-language-environment "Russian")
> (define-coding-system-alias 'windows-1251 'cp1251)
> (set-buffer-file-coding-system 'cp1251-dos)
> (set-default-coding-systems 'cp1251-dos)
> (set-terminal-coding-system 'windows-1251-dos)
> (set-selection-coding-system 'cp1251-dos)
> (prefer-coding-system 'cp1251-dos)

What happens if you try this in "emacs -Q"?

(On Windows XP, it's almost never the right thing to force Emacs into
some specific encoding when working with the clipboard.)