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Re: cut-and-paste german quotes


From: Karl Eichwalder
Subject: Re: cut-and-paste german quotes
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:18:59 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> 0xd0c8 is a character of charset japanese-jisx0208.  Emacs
> by default requests a selection of type COMPOUND_TEXT.  It
> seems that xterm, on responding to it, encodes U+201C into a
> character of japanese-jisx0208.  It itself is not a bug
> because that that character can be mapped to U+201C
> according to glibc's charset mapping table.

thanks for the explanation.

> Please try this:
>
> (setq x-select-request-type '(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING))

thanks, this helps.

> Then Emacs requests a selection of type UTF8_STRING at first.

I'm wondering whether this setting would be appropriate as the default
on GNU/Linux distributions which set UTF-8 as the system default
encoding.

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