From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: utf-8 cut/paste
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:18:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur7t9n6i4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3oeoem9sy.fsf@seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net
Benjamin,
thanks for your reply,
> * Benjamin Riefenstahl <Orawnzva.Evrsrafgnuy@rcbfg.qr> [2004-05-24 11:52:29 +0200]:
>
> Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> 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).
what is "charset unification"?
I thought that if I use unicode (utf-8), all characters are already
in one set.
> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-24 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-23 18:59 utf-8 cut/paste Sam Steingold
2004-05-24 9:52 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-05-24 16:18 ` Sam Steingold [this message]
2004-05-24 19:19 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-05-24 21:00 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-24 23:10 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-05-25 13:06 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-25 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-25 10:03 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-05-25 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-25 15:41 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-26 4:22 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-28 17:45 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-29 10:04 ` Jason Rumney
2004-05-26 4:33 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-26 18:11 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-26 19:23 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-26 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-26 13:31 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-26 12:30 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-05-26 15:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-26 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-26 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-27 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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