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Re: utf-8 cut/paste
From: |
Sam Steingold |
Subject: |
Re: utf-8 cut/paste |
Date: |
Mon, 24 May 2004 12:18:27 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) |
Benjamin,
thanks for your reply,
> * Benjamin Riefenstahl <address@hidden> [2004-05-24 11:52:29 +0200]:
>
> Sam Steingold <address@hidden> 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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- utf-8 cut/paste, Sam Steingold, 2004/05/23
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Benjamin Riefenstahl, 2004/05/24
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste,
Sam Steingold <=
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/25
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Benjamin Riefenstahl, 2004/05/25
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/25
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Sam Steingold, 2004/05/25
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Kenichi Handa, 2004/05/26
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Sam Steingold, 2004/05/28