Re: Emacs 24.5.1 has wrong charset on yanked text with Windows (was: Operating on yanked region)

[Karl Voit]

* <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 02:13:52PM +0200, Karl Voit wrote:
>> * Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:
>> >
>> >> When I paste text from a Windows application to my Emacs (running
>> >> mainly Org-mode), I get wrong charset.
>> >>
>> >> For correcting such wrong character sets, I want to write a function
>> >> that corrects the charset.
>> >
>> > I cannot help with your needs, 
>> 
>> That's OK.
>> 
>> Besides the good points regarding charset below, I still need to
>> search&replace some things on the yanked region.
>> 
>> > but you should not have to jump through
>> > hoops just to get text encoding right, as long as the originating
>> > application puts Unicode text on clipboard. (And I’m pretty convinced
>> > Outlook does.)
>> 
>> How can I test this?
>
> I know very little about Windows these days. But the documentation
> for the variables "selection-coding-system" and 

,----
| selection-coding-system is a variable defined in `select.el'.
| Its value is iso-latin-1-dos
| Original value was nil
`----

I once set this to 'utf-8 in my init.el. The Emacs help further
suggests setting it to 'utf-16le-dos instead when running on
Windows. With switching to this setting, the clipboard gets yanked
properly! :-)

> "x-select-request-type" might contain relevant information. 

(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING)
... seems legit.

Great, that solves the charset issue.

Thanks very much! :-)


Can you still show me how I yank and operate (string-replace) only
on the yanked text?

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