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

[Jason Rumney]

paulgor@compuserve.com (Paul Gorodyansky) writes:

> > 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 

It is theoretically possible to use UTF-8 as your system code page,
but having tried it once I can tell you that it stops a lot of
programs from working (including cmd.exe).