Re: Unicode support for the MS Windows clipboard

[Tak Ota]

Benny,

You are right!  Leaving the clipboard-coding-system as the default
makes it work fine now.  Thank you very much.

-Tak

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:42:43 +0200: Benjamin Riefenstahl <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Tak,
> 
> 
> Tak Ota <address@hidden> writes:
> >> After [...] (set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-16-le)
> 
> > After having applied your patch I noticed something strange.  There
> > is a loss of character when copying from w32 application to emacs.
> 
> That may be an effect of using 'utf-16-le.  Try 'utf-16le instead (no
> dash before the "le").  Those two are slightly different, because
> 'utf-16-le adds and expects a byte-order-mark as first character.
> 
> > I am testing this on windoze XP pro.
> 
> Than 'utf-16le should be the default anyway.  You should be able to
> just drop the call to set-clipboard-coding-system in your .emacs.
> 
> 
> benny