Re: Coding systems again

[B. T. Raven]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:01:32 -0500
> > From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
> >
> > I thought I understood coding systems enough to copy-paste between Emacs 
> > and Windows apps but I am no longer able to revert (re-code?) text from 
> > a buffer saved as utf-8 to latin-1. If I have the following in a buffer, 
> > how can I send it in Mozilla Thunderbird as latin-1?
> >
> > Theodosiô postea imperante rês aliquâtenus in meliôrem statum adductae sunt.
> >
> > Circumflex diacritics are part of latin-1 if I'm not mistaken but I 
> > always get a warning that message contains characters not found in the 
> > Encoding.
>
> What Emacs version are you using?  Emacs 22.x ought to use UTF-16
> (a.k.a. Unicode) encoding when passing text through the Windows
> clipboard, so any native Windows application should be happy with the
> result.
>
> Can you try pasting the same text into Notepad?  If that works, then
> the problem is likely ion Mozilla, not in Emacs.

Thanks, Eli and Peter. Part of the problem was a single character Y with 
circumflex (Unicode but not Latin-1). I am using Emacs version 22 but 
copy paste from Emacs to Thunderbird doesn't covert circumflexed vowels 
in Emacs internal representation to Latin-1 in Thunderbird. I got around 
the problem with:
C-x ret c
Latin-1
C-x C-w
and then closing buffer and reloading file. It may be something 
different with Thunderbird. I recently turned on Autodect > Universal 
under View > Character Encoding but I didn't understand what was going 
on. Maybe all I have to to is reboot.

Ed