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 11:52:29 +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 1085397871 5567 80.91.224.253 (24 May 2004 11:24:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:24:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 24 13:24:24 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 1BSDZA-0007O3-00 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 13:24:24 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BSDZ9-0006SU-00 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 13:24:24 +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 1BSCpY-00070K-St for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 24 May 2004 06:37:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BSCnd-0006lb-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2004 06:35:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BSCn0-0006ft-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2004 06:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.187] (helo=mail.epost.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BSC8W-0000OD-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2004 05:52:57 -0400 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.30) by mail.epost.de (6.7.015) id 40B162C80000BD1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2004 11:52:46 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Sam Steingold's message of "Sun, 23 May 2004 14:59:16 -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:23889 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23889 Hi Sam, Sam Steingold writes: > the same utf-8 file is in an Emacs buffer, and I try to copy it with > `clipboard-kill-ring-save', I cannot paste into notepad or firefox: > the inserted text looks like "?????????". Emacs uses the legacy 8-bit text clipboard format, it doesn't use Unicode even on NT-based systems. 8-bit text won't work with arbitrary Unicode characters, naturally. If the text that you want to cut-and-paste only has characters that are available in your local 8-bit encoding (windows-1252 typically), there may be a solution using charset unification (I don't know how that machinery works exactly). In any case you probably need to make sure that your selection-coding-system has the right value. benny