From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: josh buhl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs, umlauts, x-windows text mark and paste Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:00:13 +0100 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071670705 14434 80.91.224.253 (17 Dec 2003 14:18:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:18:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 15:18:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWcVK-0001bn-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:18:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWdP4-0008OQ-2J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:15:58 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 62 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: vpn-nat-01-a.stw-bonn.de Original-X-Trace: f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de 1071669613 25196 131.220.99.35 (17 Dec 2003 14:00:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Dec 2003 14:00:13 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4; MultiZilla v1.4.0.4A) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119427 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15366 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15366 Sorry Eli, sent that from the wrong account. This was a reply to your questions. erasurehead wrote: > > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> What do you get if you say >> >> C-x RET X raw-text RET >> >> before pasting? Please tell what characters are pasted into the Emacs >> buffer in this case. > > > same thing. I mark this text in mozilla: > > Minuten köcheln lassen. Diese Soße sollte weder zu dick noch zu dünn sein > > > and I get this in emacs: > > Minuten k\x{00F6}cheln lassen. Diese So\x{00DF}e sollte weder zu dick > noch zu d\x{00FC}nn sein > > and the control sequences aren't one character, they are in the buffer > as literal (e.g.) "\x{00F6}" consisting of the 8 ascii characters you see. > >> >> Also, if you can find some tool that will show you the contents of the >> X selection buffer after you cut/copy from a gtk2 application, please >> tell what does that tool show. Perhaps by looking at the contents of >> the selection buffer we will be able to guess what kind of encoding is >> used. > > > I'll try to find one. > >> >> I'm also slightly confused by the fact that someone told in this >> thread they have no problems pasting from Mozilla. > > > It works properly for german language stuff if I log in setting the > session language to german (who knows what gnome does with the gtk2 > pango stuff in this case), but then it doesn't copy other lanquages > properly. It also doesn't work if i set LC_ALL to any type of german or > utf locale in a terminal window and then start emacs, though I can > verify that this has an effect since it changes the default encoding for > saving a buffer. > > > Could it be > >> something in the setup of your system? Does it help to invoke Emacs >> with "emacs -q --no-site-file"? > > > No. same thing. >