Re: Text encoding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 15:10:56 +0300
> From: "Oleg Oltar" <oltarasenko@gmail.com>
> 
> Please help. I tried to copy, text from my M$ Word document (text in
> Ukrainian) into Emacs.

You didn't say what version of Emacs and on what OS.  From the image,
it looks like your Emacs is version 21.x, but that's all I can guess.

> (I use this font in Emacs
> -*-courier-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-cp1251**, so if it type there something in
> Ukranian it looks cool). But after I pasted the  paragraph  from word I
> noticed that it is displayed with incorrect encoding (some symbols are not
> recognized) :(

If this is on Unix or GNU/Linux system, what is your value of
selection-coding-system?  It should be cp1251 or windows-1251, I
think, to give good results.