Copying text from websites via browser, paste into xemacs (21.4) buffer, and tildes, quotes, etc. don't copy correctly.
Example: he’s a dummy -> he\222s a dummy.
Can YOU copy & paste it without problems? If so, please help - how to config my .emacs to solve this. Thanks.
You're attempting to copy+paste smart quotes into XEmacs. In this case, '\222' is the octal code for the character RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (U+2019) encoded in the code page Windows-1252, which has the character encoding 0x92.
XEmacs uses UTF-8 internally, so you'll have to configure the copy+paste to convert from Windows-1252 to UTF-8. I don't know how to do that.
Simplest thing to do is write a quick function that translates those characters using replace-string.
You could also have xemacs set to accept that code page directly.
Switch to emacs, it works like a champ (GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6002) from Emacsw32 here). This may be the Emacsw32 patches in action.
Fire this in your .emacs:
(set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-16le-dos)
That should do it. Don't forget to thi C-x C-e on that statement, or restart xemacs.
This isn’t a clipboard or cygwin problem. If you save a UTF-8 text file with curly quotes in notepad and open it in XEmacs 21.4, you’ll get junk. According to the XEmacs reference documentation, Unicode is not supported before version 21.5.6. Maybe try a later version?