From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: utf-8 cut/paste Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:19:03 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085434124 29601 80.91.224.253 (24 May 2004 21:28:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:28:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 24 23:28:34 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BSMzq-0001fN-00 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 23:28:34 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BSMzp-0004UF-00 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 23:28:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BSMkE-0002nu-3Y for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 24 May 2004 17:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BSMeW-0001PM-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2004 17:06:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BSLvd-00015b-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2004 16:20:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.187] (helo=mail.epost.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BSKyi-0007p8-Ub; Mon, 24 May 2004 15:19:17 -0400 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.30) by mail.epost.de (6.7.015) id 40B162C80001EF83; Mon, 24 May 2004 21:19:16 +0200 Original-To: sds@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Sam Steingold's message of "Mon, 24 May 2004 12:18:27 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23902 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23902 Hi Sam, Sam Steingold writes: > what is "charset unification"? I meant the functions unify-8859-on-decoding-mode and unify-8859-on-encoding-mode. I'm not quite sure if these functions also cover the Windows codepages like cp1252. > I thought that if I use unicode (utf-8), all characters are already > in one set. In general theory, all the Unicode characters are in the Unicode (utf-8) set and all the cp1252 characters are in the cp1252 set. As far as Emacs is concerned the two sets describe different characters and they have no relationship. Unless you use some kind of translation, which is what the above functions do AFAIK. >> In any case you probably need to make sure that your >> selection-coding-system has the right value. > > what value is right? > > selection-coding-system > ==> cp1252 Assuming you are on an English system, that's the right one. benny