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: Unicode support for the MS Windows clipboard Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:38:37 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <9681-Thu27May2004100522+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <3405-Wed28Jul2004064514+0300-eliz@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091018366 28113 80.91.224.253 (28 Jul 2004 12:39:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:39:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 28 14:39:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BpniD-0006v0-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:39:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpnlL-0003AU-Ov for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BpnlE-0003AP-Rp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BpnlD-00039x-6C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpnlC-00039u-WB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.151] (helo=mail.epost.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bpni1-00019j-EN; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:39:01 -0400 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.30) by mail.epost.de (7.1.026.1) id 4105C12B0002A4E8; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:39:01 +0200 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Benjamin Riefenstahl's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:30:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26049 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26049 Benjamin Riefenstahl writes: > We could decide not to use selection-coding-system at all. In that > case we probably don't need any variable at all, just trusting the > system to give us the right information. On second thought, that would also loose the ability to specify a non-default encoding for 8-bit text. Although I doubt that many receiving applications use that correctly :-(. And those that could use it will probably all prefer a Unicode version when we offer that in addition. benny