Re: NTEmacs and multibyte character entry

[Jason Rumney]

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> I'm trying to edit a document in windows-1252 encoding, though I would
> be happy to use any encoding that allows me to enter an em-dash
> character along with "regular" ascii text.  I can build a document
> that contains the em-dash (enclosed) and have it display properly in
> emacs, but I can't enter the em-dash directly in emacs using the
> keyboard (AFAICT), If I try to yank it into emacs after copying it to
> the clipboard from another application or copying it to the kill
> buffer within emacs, I just see a question mark.

For the clipboard problem, try setting selection-coding-system to
windows-1252-dos. Setting keyboard-coding-system to windows-1252
might help for typing, otherwise define a function to insert the
character (which you can paste in), and define a convenient
keybinding for it.