Re: Copying and pasting Cyrillic text between Emacs and other apps

[Paul Gorodyansky]

jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com wrote in message 
news:<uad48wj0r.fsf@jasonrumney.net>...
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:
> 
> > Emacs in CVS can use UTF-8, UTF-16-BE and UTF-16-LE as well.  I tried
> > them, but the Windows clipboard viewer still shows garbage when I
> > type "C-x RET X ENCODING RET M-w" (where ENCODING is one of the UTF-*
> > encodings mentioned above) with Cyrillic characters in the region.
> 
> Your system default is probably whatever 8bit encoding Windows uses
> for Hebrew (I suspect not the ISO one). It is not UTF-8 or UTF-16.

There is *no* Windows systems with Unicode as system code page 
In MS terminilogy, CP_ACP is always a legacy code page.
GetACP() Win32 API returns the value - 1251, 932, etc.

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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet": 
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/