Re: Cut buffers and character encoding

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Romain Francoise <address@hidden> writes:

> Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> > I vaguely remember that I changed cut-buffer decoding to use
> > locale-coding-system (if any) instead of iso-8859-1 upon a
> > bug report from someone.  He claimed that many X
> > applications store a data encoded by the current locale in
> > cut-buffer (even if that doesn't conform to ICCCM), thus it
> > is better that Emacs also decodes it by the coding system
> > specified by the locale.  Even xterm, when run under, for
> > instance, cs_CS.ISO8859-2 locale, stores ISO8859-2
> > characters as is in cut buffer.

> Would it be feasible to use `detect-coding-string' to decide which
> encoding to use?

I think tring locale-coding-system at first, and if that
yields undecoded eight-bit characters, decoding by
iso-8859-1 is good.

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Kenichi Handa
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