Re: address@hidden: Copy-paste between pretest Emacs 22 and other GNU/Linux programs]

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Would people please take a look at this?

> ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:11:05 +0100
> From: Ryszard Kubiak <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Copy-paste between pretest Emacs 22 and other Linux programs
[...]
> I would like to report that copying a text with Polish national
> letters from an X-based program (like: xterm, gnome terminal,
> kde terminal, thudirbird, firefox) and pasting it into Emacs
> does not work properly within an environment which is utf-8,
> both in the operating system and in Emacs.

> If you can see the following eighteen Polish letters

> ??????Ó??????????ó

> properly in your e-mail client, which you should if you have set
> utf-8 as your basic encoding, then could you copy them into Emacs,
> also configured to work with utf-8? Do you see them right? If so,
> I would be happy to know all of your settings. My related .emacs
> settings are quoted below.

Please try to comment out the following line in your .emacs:

(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)

Doesn't it fix the problem?

Anyway, as the above line should not cause a problem, I'm
now invetigating how to fix it.

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Kenichi Handa
address@hidden