From: josh buhl <uzs33d@uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Re: emacs, umlauts, x-windows text mark and paste
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:54:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <brmo98$gh0$1@f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3llpd127v.fsf@ate.maierh>
Harald Maier wrote:
> I fear the character coding in mozilla differs from the emacs
> encoding. What is the character coding in mozilla? You should find it
> in mozilla under View -> Character Coding.
On the page I've been using for test purposes Mozilla says iso-8559-1,
which emacs should be able to handle, but this has actually nothing to
do with mozilla. It's a problem with how the text is being put in the
x-windows systems clipboard and how emacs is reading it back out. Only
emacs seems to have a problem with this. Running my usual C (en) locale,
i can mark and copy this same german text back and forth between open
office writer, gedit, kword, kedit, and even the ancient xedit. They all
get the special characters properly, only Emacs barfs, and Emacs is
otherwise (in my humble opinion) the most advanced editor in the world,
but it can't seem to get a simple copy and paste right. What gives?
What about this other point of telling emacs what encoding to use for a
buffer, and then not having the text change at all? Probably you're just
telling it what format to use when it saves. What I'd like to see, is a
command that tells emacs to reinterpret the buffer assuming that the
encoding is different, so that, e.g., if I pick a chinese encoding and
have entered ascii text, it should junk the screen, but if I've pasted
in chinese text, and the buffer looks junked, then the chinese suddenly
appears when selecting the correct encoding.
still frustrated ;-)
-jb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-16 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-16 8:36 emacs, umlauts, x-windows text mark and paste josh buhl
2003-12-16 9:11 ` Sergei Pokrovsky
2003-12-16 9:40 ` Harald Maier
2003-12-16 10:11 ` erasurehead
2003-12-16 10:33 ` Harald Maier
2003-12-16 10:54 ` josh buhl [this message]
2003-12-16 11:16 ` josh buhl
2003-12-17 6:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.175.1071644836.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-17 8:17 ` josh buhl
2003-12-17 8:19 ` josh buhl
2003-12-17 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.181.1071656744.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-17 9:57 ` Sergei Pokrovsky
2003-12-17 10:51 ` Harald Maier
2003-12-17 13:56 ` josh buhl
2003-12-17 11:43 ` Edi Weitz
2003-12-17 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-17 13:54 ` erasurehead
2003-12-17 14:00 ` josh buhl
2003-12-17 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.210.1071689295.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-18 8:53 ` josh buhl
2003-12-16 10:57 ` Sergei Pokrovsky
2003-12-16 10:12 ` josh buhl
2003-12-18 9:54 ` josh buhl
2003-12-18 9:56 ` josh buhl
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