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Re: Copying and pasting Cyrillic text between Emacs and other apps


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: Copying and pasting Cyrillic text between Emacs and other apps
Date: 28 Jan 2004 00:25:51 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

paulgor@compuserve.com (Paul Gorodyansky) writes:

> eMaXer <zxy@yxz67483.com> wrote in message 
> news:<u3ca2m3tc.fsf@yxz67483.com>...
> > A can't figure out how to do this. 
> > 
> > I am using NT Emacs 21.3.1 on Windows XP. When I try to copy Cyrillic
> > text from some other application into an Emacs buffer, I get only
> > question marks.
> > 
> 
> Looks like Emacs is a NON-Unicode program...
> Please see work-around explained in the Chapter 2 "Copy/Paste"
> of the "Unicode related issues" section on my site.

As noted on that page, the System code page must be cyrillic for the
clipboard to handle cp1251.

Emacs will put data on the clipboard in whatever encoding you tell it
to, but most other programs will only use the System default.




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