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Re: Emacs 24.5.1 has wrong charset on yanked text with Windows (was: Ope
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Emacs 24.5.1 has wrong charset on yanked text with Windows (was: Operating on yanked region) |
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Wed, 18 May 2016 21:14:13 +0300 |
> From: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 17:53:51 +0200
>
> ,----
> | selection-coding-system is a variable defined in `select.el'.
> | Its value is iso-latin-1-dos
> | Original value was nil
> `----
>
> I once set this to 'utf-8 in my init.el. The Emacs help further
> suggests setting it to 'utf-16le-dos instead when running on
> Windows. With switching to this setting, the clipboard gets yanked
> properly! :-)
You shouldn't set selection-coding-system to any value on MS-Windows,
just leave it alone. It will work regardless. Setting it to anything
is asking for trouble, as it forces Emacs to use that encoding instead
of using UTF-16 when available in the clipboard.
> Can you still show me how I yank and operate (string-replace) only
> on the yanked text?
Turn on transient-mark-mode, I think.
Re: Operating on yanked region, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/18
Re: Operating on yanked region, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/18