Re: replacing characters and whacky trans-buffer conversion

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.03.2007 um 21:43 schrieb ken:

> ^[%GX\200\223^[%@

Yes, this is the scrap I found in GNU Emacs 21.x in Fedora Core 1  
when I pasted some contents from some other GNOME application!

Since this Linux PC was just my desktop machine and my /real/ Emacsen  
were running on Sun servers my workaround was very simple: vi(m) in  
some terminal emulation. Sometimes a simple echo or cat was my  
friend ...

I never studied GNOME that much that I found a clue. Could be it  
helps to set in login and any other shell the environment variables  
LC_ALL and LANG to some utf-8 based value. What I also observed, is  
that parts of the ANSI like ESC sequences changed when I copied from  
differently encoded files. So it's actually, IMO, not the *real* X  
selection you are pasting, but some GNOME selection that also tells  
all GNOME applications how the text you paste is encoded – which is  
clever!

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Greetings

  Pete

Make it simple, as simple as possible but no simpler.
                              Albert Einstein