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Re: copy-n-paste UTF-8 characters


From: Harald Hanche-Olsen
Subject: Re: copy-n-paste UTF-8 characters
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 12:19:37 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin)

+ ken <gebser@mousecar.com>:

> When I open a webpage encoded in utf-8, copy some characters, then
> past them into an emacs buffer, they turn into (basically) garbage
> characters.

Check the variable selection-coding-system. Set it if necessary with
set-selection-coding-system.

-- 
* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
  when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
  -- Bertrand Russell


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