From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 24.5.1 has wrong charset on yanked text with Windows (was: Operating on yanked region)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 14:31:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160518123117.GA13317@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2016-05-18T14-10-52@devnull.Karl-Voit.at>
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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 02:13:52PM +0200, Karl Voit wrote:
> * Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> 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 "x-select-request-type"
might contain relevant information. You can access this doc with
C-h v <variable name>
Hope this gets you a step further
- -- t
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-18 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-18 11:07 Operating on yanked region Karl Voit
2016-05-18 11:30 ` Yuri Khan
2016-05-18 12:13 ` Emacs 24.5.1 has wrong charset on yanked text with Windows (was: Operating on yanked region) Karl Voit
2016-05-18 12:31 ` tomas [this message]
2016-05-18 15:53 ` Karl Voit
2016-05-18 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-18 20:30 ` Karl Voit
2016-05-19 4:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-19 8:38 ` tomas
2016-06-09 10:10 ` Karl Voit
2016-06-09 10:18 ` tomas
2016-05-18 13:25 ` Yuri Khan
2016-05-18 18:02 ` Operating on yanked region Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-18 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-09 9:43 ` Karl Voit
2016-06-09 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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