Re: emacs, umlauts, x-windows text mark and paste

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: erasurehead <erasurehead@goatrance.net>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:54:40 +0100
> 
> I get this in emacs:
> 
> Minuten k\x{00F6}cheln lassen. Diese So\x{00DF}e sollte weder zu dick 
> noch zu d\x{00FC}nn sein
> 
> and the control sequences aren't one character, they are in the buffer 
> as literal (e.g.) "\x{00F6}"  consisting of the 8 ascii characters you see.

It begins to sound as if gtk2/pango actually converts the text like
that when it puts it into the selection buffer.

Perhaps you should post a question to some forum related to gtk2
development, or google for similar issues.