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gareth.rees@pobox.com (Gareth Rees) writes:

> I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.1 [(i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2004-03-10 on
> NYAUMO] on Windows 2000.  Using the LEIM I can enter Japanese text.
> But I can't paste Japanese text from other Windows applications.
> The NEWS file suggests setting selection-coding-system to
> utf-16-le-dos, but that doesn't work.

The NEWS file is wrong. You might have more luck setting
selection-coding-system to shift-jis-dos, but it will probably only
work if your system locale is Japanese.