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Re: desktop-read usage and syntax ::error, strange character :: half-SOL
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Nick Dokos |
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Re: desktop-read usage and syntax ::error, strange character :: half-SOLVED!!! |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:00:15 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
> ...
> I've been having a longterm
> issue with the German characters: ä ö ü, their capitalized equivalents
> and ß. I can type them into an emacs buffer (and obviously into an
> email composed in Tbird). But if I copy text with any of these
> characters from somewhere else and paste it into emacs, I get
> "garbage" characters in their stead; not so if I paste the same text
> into any other application on my system, e.g., Tbird, vi, bash shell,
> even LibreOffice's Calc. So there's something shakey going on with
> emacs there. I can't say this problem and the one original to this
> email thread come out of the same code, but they do bear some
> resemblance.
>
You probably have to specify the correct encoding of the X selection: go to
Options / Multilingual Environment / Set Coding Systems/ For X
Selections/Clipboard
or "C-x RET x" for short. You'll probably have to guess what the encoding
should be
based on whatever the previous, unsuccessful, paste did to your buffer :-)
Personally, I set everything to use UTF-8 and have very little trouble, but I
cannot
control what some random website will do, so if I need to cut and paste from
there
the above method might come in handy.
--
Nick
Re: desktop-read usage and syntax ::error, strange character, John Mastro, 2017/07/18