Re: getting Mule, Unicode & X selection to play together

[Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@vega.ocn.ne.jp>]

On December 15, 2002 at 2:09AM +0200,
Michael Livshin <usenet@cmm.kakpryg.net> wrote:

> so the day had come and I decided to explore the wonderful world of
> Emacs 21 and Mule, what with all the nice Debian packaging of them out
> there.
> 
> so I installed Emacs 21 and mule-ucs

> now, if I select a chunk of cyrillic text in Mozilla and paste it into
> Emacs, I do indeed get the same-looking text.  however, the char codes
> are different from whatever Emacs itself chooses for the same entities
> if I type them into it (which is just weird, but no biggie), and (as a
> consequence, probably) the pasted text is shown in a different font
> (which is butt ugly).

Did you install the xfonts-base-transcoded package?

In Debian, fonts in several ISO 8859 encodings transcoded from
ISO 10646-1 are contained with the xfonts-*-transcoded packages.
See also `apt-cache show xfonts-base-transcoded' and
`apt-cache search transcoded'.

-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita