Re: re-render the buffer: problem with displaying chinese

[Miles Bader]

Shao Zhang <shaoz@asia.com> writes:
> Sometimes, I need to display some chinese characters cut/pasted from
> other applications. So I open a temp buffer, paste the chinese
> character, and the M-x set-language-environment, and then choose
> Chinese-BIG5.

Have you tried setting the coding system used for X cut-buffer operations?

You can do that using `C-x C-m x' (`set-selection-coding-system').

I'm not sure if setting the language environment sets this or not (and
even if it did, you'd have to set the language environment _before_
pasting).

-Miles
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