Re: selection-coding-system and pasting to Firefox

[B.T. Raven]

"Brendan Halpin" <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> wrote in message
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> I've had problems pasting from Emacs 21 to firefox (under Debian),
> and have stumbled on a solution:
>
> M-x set-selection-coding-system RET iso-latin-1-unix RET
>
> I can now paste to firefox (and paste strings with accented
> characters to xclipboard, which was my workaround).
>
> Question: what do I lose or risk by setting selection-coding-system
> away from the default, compound-text-with-extensions?
>
> Brendan

Don't know. The keybinding for this is C-x RET x. ls there a way to make
this work in w32? I want to copy from emacs buffer (utf-8) and paste
into Outlook Express.

Thanks,

Ed