what encoding is the X clipboard text in?

Alexey> There is a slight misfeature in Mule XEmacs when working Alexey> under X. When I type some Cyrillic text in XEmacs, then Alexey> select it with mouse and paste it to xterm, I get various Alexey> clearly wrong results. The clipboard or the selections? It sounds like you're describing the primary selection. (The clipboard is a separate application in MIT X, and Motif has something built-in, as does MS Windows.) The selections should be in X Compound Text (aka CText) AFAIK, a version of ISO-2022. This example %/1��koi8-rPRIWET uses the ISO-2022 "Designate Other Coding System (does not return to ISO-2022)" function with a private final byte. So it looks like CText to me. And this is xterm-specific. I don't understand the rest of control sequences offhand, you'd have to look in the xterm sources. It looks like it's somehow describing koi8-r as the private coding system, but \200 is not a valid C1 control character AFAIK, so I don't know exactly what is going on. I suggest looking at the xterm sources. Everything has to communicate with xterm, so we'll probably win in most cases if we can talk to xterm. Which version of XEmacs? Some work has been done fairly recently on improving selection behavior, but I think its mostly in 21.5. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."