Re: emacs, umlauts, x-windows text mark and paste

[Sergei Pokrovsky <pok@none.nowhere.invalid>]

>>>>> "josh" == josh buhl <uzs33d@uni-bonn.de> writes:

[...]

  josh> I've struggled with this problem _for years_ and never have found an
  josh> easy solution. I'm running emacs 21.3.1 on debian testing under gnome
  josh> 2.4 with english as the default language environment. I do know that
  josh> if I log out, and log in setting the session language to german, then
  josh> I can cut an paste german text into an emacs buffer with no
  josh> problem. However, it's not enough to set the LANG variable: if I open
  josh> a terminal, set LANG=german or de, and start emacs, it still doesn't
  josh> work.

It's not $LANG which matters ($LANG concerns the message language),
it's $LC_ALL generally (or maybe $LC_CTYPE specifically).

Here on Solaris I've set the locale to en_US.UTF-8 and I can copy
between emacs and other applications.  Not quite well, though: when I
copy Russian text from Emacs buffer it works up to the first
whitespace (the first word is copied correctly, the rest is garbage).

But there is no such a problem for the Latin alphabets, which seems to
be your case.

[...]

-- 
Sergei