Re: Unicode support for the MS Windows clipboard

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:43:12 +0200
> 
> a) I suggested adding a system specific coding-system alias "unicode"
> in the text that you snipped.  ;-)
> 
> b) It seems cleaner to me to make a pretty customize interface that
> just selects between clipboard modes "Unicode" and "8-bit" and does
> the right thing with that user input.  One could also add symbols like
> this as special cases to set-selection-coding-system.

Right.  The Unicode mode of the Windows clipboard is not really a
coding-system, as it cannot be used in any other context.  Therefore,
I think we should have a w32-clipboard-encoding-mode or some such, not
a coding-system.