From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:55:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pqdxq47t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F29F75A.9070301@mousecar.com>
> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:39:22 -0500
> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
>
> > What is your value of selection-coding-system? Try setting it to
> > something like ctext-with-extensions.
>
> Thanks, Eli,
>
> Immediately prior to doing the copy-and-paste I ran all of these:
>
> (set-language-environment 'UTF-8)
> (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
> (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8)
> (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (modify-coding-system-alist 'process "\\*shell\\*\\'" 'utf-8-unix)
Not a good idea, I'm afraid: the UTF-8 support in Emacs 21 left a lot
to be desired.
> Following your advice, I ran
>
> (set-selection-coding-system 'ctext-with-extensions)
>
> and then did the same copy-and-paste again. This got more of the
> characters correct, but not all of them.
Can you show the original text, and then what you have after pasting?
I need to see which characters aren't pasted correctly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 3:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-01 20:41 garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs ken
2012-02-01 21:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-02 2:39 ` ken
2012-02-02 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-02-02 20:00 ` ken
2012-02-03 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-06 18:01 ` different distro [was: Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs] ken
2012-02-06 20:15 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-02-01 21:29 ` garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs Philipp Haselwarter
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