Re: clean mess encrusted on to Chinese pastes cut from outside emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Kenichi Handa wrote:

> This is the same problem as what reported to me quite
> recently from a Debian developer.  It seems that the Big-5
> user community started to use the above special encoding
> following "Non-Standard Character Set Encodings" of Compound
> Text.  I'll attach the full spec at the tail.

Thanks.

Do you know if there's some way for the user to control what encoding is 
used by those applications for the data they put into the X selections?  
If there is some way to tell them to use something Emacs can grok, we 
could put that in etc/PROBLEMS, until the necessary support is added to 
Emacs.