[I'm using Konqueror to file this bug report.] In, say, an Emacs buffer, type a word with accented characters, such as D
[I'm using Konqueror to file this bug report.] In, say, an Emacs buffer, type a word with accented characters, such as Démarrer In both Firefox and Galeon, I was unable to cut&paste this into the Bugzilla "Details" box, nor to any of the toolbar windows of the browser. (Nothing at all appeared.) However, in Konqueror I could do the cut&paste, and the accented symbols appeared. Perhaps the difficulty is with Mozilla-based browsers? Or with a config file somewhere? I do not know if, with a special kbd, one can directly type accented characters into a FF or Galeon window (I don't know how to type such from a std American kbd, other than using Emacs input methods.)
Sure, you can type accented characters with any keybord which supports them (French one would be probably useful in this case, Czech and Slovak keybords have this character as well). You can type most of them directly, some of them require using "dead keys", though. If you were using UTF-8, you could type those even with en_US keybord layout, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml and http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8 is a good start if you want to give it a try. However, I don
Sure, you can type accented characters with any keybord which supports them (French one would be probably useful in this case, Czech and Slovak keybords have this character as well). You can type most of them directly, some of them require using "dead keys", though. If you were using UTF-8, you could type those even with en_US keybord layout, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml and http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8 is a good start if you want to give it a try. However, I don´t know why pasting them from emacs does not work for you, I´m not using emacs...
Jakub, can you successfully cut&paste (into FF or Galeon) accented characters that you typed in a shell, or from whatever editor you use? Here are further tests on my system. (Done in GNOME; my bug-report was done in KDE.) I can type "Fran
Jakub, can you successfully cut&paste (into FF or Galeon) accented characters that you typed in a shell, or from whatever editor you use? Here are further tests on my system. (Done in GNOME; my bug-report was done in KDE.) I can type "Français" in Emacs and successfully c&p it into Konqueror. From Konqueror I can c&p into Galeon --but nothing appears if I try to go directly from Emacs to Galeon. However, neither from Konqueror nor from Emacs could I c&p "Français" into the GNOME shell.
Cut&paste in Firefox works fine here. But I don
Cut&paste in Firefox works fine here. But I don´t have Gnome at all, so I can´t really test the other things. Sorry. Assigning this one to Gnome herd as it seems to be somewhat related to Gnome, please bounce back if I am wrong, or assign better. ;-)
Jakub, when you cut&pasted accented-characters into FF, you did it FROM what? Also, what windowing system were you using? ================ To give you an idea of how weird this is OMSystem: In Galeon I just highlighted the "D
Jakub, when you cut&pasted accented-characters into FF, you did it FROM what? Also, what windowing system were you using? ================ To give you an idea of how weird this is OMSystem: In Galeon I just highlighted the "Démarrer" from my bug report, and was able to c&p it to Galeon's own Google-window. And I could c&p it from Galeon to Emacs. But I could NOT c&p it from Emacs back into Galeon... ================ It terms of where to assign it: The failure also happened with KDE on my system. At first I thought that the problem lay with Mozilla-based browsers, but perhaps it is a windowing system problem. I would certainly like that someone could reproduce the problem on his system... Is it possible that X has several types of cut-buffer, and that Konqueror reads from some types, but that Mozilla-based reads only from one type? And that Emacs pastes into a type not used by Mozilla-based? Maybe the best place to assign it is Emacs, or Emacs+XWindows (if there is such a bug category). But I defer to your judgment as to where to assign it, since I'm flummoxed.
One more idea - it
One more idea - it´s for Windows actually but just replace the path with path to your profile in ~/.mozilla/... http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/securityprefs.html Does this help for Firefox?
(I decided not to play with the preferences in FF, since I know little about it and, as shown below, the problem appears already in gnome-terminal.) In KDE I invoked these six applications and tried to c&p between them: Emacs,Konqueror,Galeon,Konsole,xterm,GnomeTerminal ================ 1: Everybody could c&p non-accent characters to anybody. 2: *Nobody* could c&p ACCENTED characters to GnomeTerminal (!) 3: The five Emacs,Konqueror,Galeon,Konsole,xterm could c&p accents between them with these two exceptions: * Emacs could not c&p to Galeon. * xterm could only receive, not send, since I don't know how to mouse-select in xterm. (Is there a way?) Since GnomeTerminal couldn't receive accents via c&p (I still don't know how to type them directly), I agree with assigning this to Gnome --but with the comment that Emacs must be using the clipboard differently than the other applications.
Adding emacs to CC... maybe they have some ideas. ;-)
not gnome
For the following suggestion, make sure you start Emacs with "emacs -q" -- this will start Emacs and cause it to NOT read site-lisp.el and ~/.emacs{,.el} etc. Try M-x describe-current-coding-system RET in a buffer with the example accented text and paste the output of that command here. Although there are a couple of clipboard protocols, I don't think the problem is related to that.
I don't know why this ever has been assigned to me, as it is in no way related to galeon only (appears in all other gnome-apps the same way), so re-assigning back to gnome.
As foser put it, not GNOME. For the record, I can C&P the accented text to and from everything (of course I use vim and not emacs for my editor). This is most likely an emacs issue. Also, since KDE apps were showing signs of issue, adding KDE to CC, and reassigning to emacs people.
This most certainly not a Gentoo specific problem.
