Re: two utf-8 questions

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 28.01.2006 um 19:30 schrieb B. T. Raven:

> 1)
>
> Even though the following is in my .emacs:
>
>  (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
>
> when I type 'C-x ret f' I see the prompt:
>
> Coding system for visited file (default, nil) instead of (default,  
> utf-8)

Maybe you need a: (prefer-coding-system   'utf-8)

> 2)
>
> Has it been pretty much decided that copypasting Unicode using the
> clipboard between emacs and MS apps is impossible for OS versions  
> earlier
> than W2000?

I don't think so, but it's natural to assume that all Losedows from  
last millennium has no idea of Unicode.

> After many
> months of lurking there I am beginning to suspect that some of the
> following settings are particularly inappropriate:
>
> (set-language-environment               'UTF-8)
>         (set-default-coding-systems             'utf-8)
>         (setq file-name-coding-system           'utf-8)
>         (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
>         (setq coding-system-for-write           'utf-8)
>         (set-keyboard-coding-system             'utf-8)
>         (set-terminal-coding-system             'utf-8)
>         (set-clipboard-coding-system            'utf-8)
>         (set-selection-coding-system            'utf-8)
>         (prefer-coding-system                   'utf-8)
>         (modify-coding-system-alist 'process
> "[cC][mM][dD][pP][rR][oO][xX][yY]" 'utf-8-dos)
>
> What could the clipboard and  selection variables be set to in  
> order to
> give me a better chance of copypasting Unicode successfully?

I would think it's some CP125x code page (1250: Extended European,  
1251: Cyrillic, 1252: ANSI, something like ISO 8859-1 or ISO  
Latin-1). And it's probably best to set this as a default -- or how  
do you print or email an UTF-8 text from this Losedows?

--
Greetings

  Pete

When confronted with actual numbers, a mathematician is at a loss.   
(Steffen Hokland)