On Tuesday 06 May 2003 11:31, Yang Shouxun wrote: > Dear debian users, > > I used to be able to paste Chinese texts from Emacs to other X apps until > upgrading to KDE3 last year via setting "set-selection-coding-system" to > "chinese-iso-8bit-with-esc". > > I get western characters (ASCII >127) rather than correct Chinese > characters when copying Chinese text in Emacs (actually Emacs21) in KDE3.1.
Thanks for the replies. After more experimenting, I found a solution to the problem. 1. set the locale-gen to contain "zh_CN.UTF-8" 2. set "export LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8" in ~/.bashrc 3. to copy Chinese from Emacs to Klipper, evaluate "(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)" 4. to copy Chinese from KDE apps to emacs, evaluate "(set-selection-coding-system 'chinese-iso-8bit-with-esc" This is really perplexing and tedious that one has to change the "selection-coding-system" variable in Emacs in order to copy to KDE apps and vice versa. Maybe there is a better approach.
