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

[Karl Voit]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>
>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 17:53:51 +0200
>> 
>> ,----
>> | 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! :-)
>
> You shouldn't set selection-coding-system to any value on MS-Windows,
> just leave it alone.  It will work regardless.  Setting it to anything
> is asking for trouble, as it forces Emacs to use that encoding instead
> of using UTF-16 when available in the clipboard.

Before I set it to 'utf-16le-dos as suggested by the manual for
Windows, I tested with no value and it did not yank correctly.

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