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

[Paul Gorodyansky]

jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com wrote in message 
news:<uptd3vmpt.fsf@jasonrumney.net>...
> paulgor@compuserve.com (Paul Gorodyansky) writes:
> 
> > > Your system default is probably whatever 8bit encoding Windows uses
> > > for Hebrew (I suspect not the ISO one). It is not UTF-8 or UTF-16.
> > 
> > There is *no* Windows systems with Unicode as system code page 
> 
> It is theoretically possible to use UTF-8 as your system code page,
> but having tried it once I can tell you that it stops a lot of
> programs from working (including cmd.exe).

How did you try it??? It was discussed zillion times in say
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.international that _the only_
way to change System Code Page is to do it via Control Panel
(it's NOT possible to do from within your programming code) -
  
"Default" button in NT/2000, "Language for non-Unicode programs"
in XP. In both cases MS lists there _real_ languages, no UTF-8 there...

So a user can _not_ set UTF-8 as System Code Page.

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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet": 
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/