From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Voit Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 24.5.1 has wrong charset on yanked text with Windows (was: Operating on yanked region) Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 17:53:51 +0200 Organization: www.karl-voit.at Message-ID: <2016-05-18T17-35-17@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> References: <2016-05-18T13-02-10@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <2016-05-18T14-10-52@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <20160518123117.GA13317@tuxteam.de> Reply-To: Karl Voit NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1463587081 29509 80.91.229.3 (18 May 2016 15:58:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 15:58:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 17:57:50 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b33r3-000270-2K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2016 17:57:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45933 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b33r2-000887-Cl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2016 11:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36091) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b33nk-0005Qr-OT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2016 11:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b33nf-000811-Ow for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2016 11:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55274) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b33nf-00080a-HN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2016 11:54:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b33nY-00083W-OF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2016 17:54:12 +0200 Original-Received: from friends.grml.info ([136.243.234.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 May 2016 17:54:12 +0200 Original-Received: from news1142 by friends.grml.info with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 May 2016 17:54:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 58 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: friends.grml.info X-GPG-Key: http://www.Karl-Voit.at/Karl_Voit_GnuPG_public_key.gpg X-Registered-Linux-User: 224337 X-Confession: Pastafarian http://www.venganza.org/ User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110050 Archived-At: * wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 02:13:52PM +0200, Karl Voit wrote: >> * Yuri Khan wrote: >> > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Karl Voit wrote: >> > >> >> When I paste text from a Windows application to my Emacs (running >> >> mainly Org-mode), I get wrong charset. >> >> >> >> For correcting such wrong character sets, I want to write a function >> >> that corrects the charset. >> > >> > I cannot help with your needs, >> >> That's OK. >> >> Besides the good points regarding charset below, I still need to >> search&replace some things on the yanked region. >> >> > but you should not have to jump through >> > hoops just to get text encoding right, as long as the originating >> > application puts Unicode text on clipboard. (And I’m pretty convinced >> > Outlook does.) >> >> How can I test this? > > I know very little about Windows these days. But the documentation > for the variables "selection-coding-system" and ,---- | selection-coding-system is a variable defined in `select.el'. | Its value is iso-latin-1-dos | Original value was nil `---- I once set this to 'utf-8 in my init.el. The Emacs help further suggests setting it to 'utf-16le-dos instead when running on Windows. With switching to this setting, the clipboard gets yanked properly! :-) > "x-select-request-type" might contain relevant information. (UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING) ... seems legit. Great, that solves the charset issue. Thanks very much! :-) Can you still show me how I yank and operate (string-replace) only on the yanked text? -- All in all, one of the most disturbing things today is the definitive fact that the NSA, GCHQ, and many more government organizations are massively terrorizing the freedom of us and the next generations. http://Karl-Voit.at