Re: can't paste non-Latin-1 text to Emacs 21.2

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:

> Pasting non-Latin-1 text under X from the development version to 21.2
> (Debian stable) fails.  E.g. "Česky" appears as "address@hidden"
> (rendering the non-ASCII characters in ASCII for mail).

Although "Č" in your mail arrived at me as charset
iso-8859-4, and thus it can succcessfully pasted into 21.2,
perhaps what you did was to paste mule-unicode-0100-24ff
character into 21.2, right?

Then, yes, the latest code encodes such a character by using
ESC % G ... ESC % @ (XFree86 extension for UTF-8 encoding)
because that is more widely accepted with the other clients
than ESC $ - 1 ... (designating the private charset
mule-unicode-0100-24ff) even though 21.3 and the prior
doesn't recognize it.  This behaviour is controlled by the
function ctext-non-standard-encodings-table.  This function
has this code now:

(defun ctext-non-standard-encodings-table ()
  (let ((table (make-char-table 'translation-table)))
    (aset table (make-char 'mule-unicode-0100-24ff) 'utf-8)
    (aset table (make-char 'mule-unicode-2500-33ff) 'utf-8)
    (aset table (make-char 'mule-unicode-e000-ffff) 'utf-8)
    ...))

Another idea is to encode such characters to some of legacy
charsets that are listed as "Approved Standard Encoding".
I'll put it in my todo list.  I would appreciate if you or
someone else can work on it.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
address@hidden