Re: converting between charsets

[Stefan Monnier]

SM> Hmm... with my Emacs (a recent CVS checkout), if I do
SM> 
SM> M-: (encode-coding-string (string 332866) 'koi8-r) RET
SM> 
SM> I get "\364" rather than "?".  So either you're running an older Emacs and
SM> the problem has been fixed, or there's something else going that
SM> I don't understand.

> Ah. I tried it with Debian's emacs-snapshot and:
> 1. encode-coding-* work.
> 2. Russian input on console also works.
> 3. Russian paste in X still does not work.

Good.  I don't enough about how X copy/pasting works, so please report this
via M-x report-emacs-bug so that someone else can take a look at it.


        Stefan