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

[Kenichi Handa]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>>  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?  

I don't know.

> 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.

If they send/receive Big5 code directly, Emacs can handle
it.  But, that way doesn't conform to the spec of Compound
Text.  So, I think they can't do that.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@etl.go.jp