Re: utf-8 cut/paste

[Sam Steingold]

> * Benjamin Riefenstahl <address@hidden> [2004-05-25 01:10:17 +0200]:
>
> Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
>> Suppose I have a utf-8 buffer (all my buffers are unicode because of
>> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) and (modify-coding-system-alist 'file
>> "" 'utf-8)) with cyrillic characters.  what do I do to get them into
>> firefox?
>
> You don't, at least not via the Windows clipboard.  Re-read what I
> wrote earlier:
>
>>> 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.
>
> I assume you are on an English system.  So your 8-bit Windows encoding
> is cp1252 (Latin-1 plus MS extensions).  That doesn't cover cyrillic,
> so you can't cut-and-paste cyrillic.  That's regardless of what Emacs
> supports or uses internally.  Emacs would have to use the Unicode
> version of the Windows clipboard transfer to do this, but as of yet it
> doesn't.
>
> You can of course write the data into a file in UTF-8 and read that in
> Firefox or Notepad.

Thanks a lot for clarifying the matter.

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