Emacs encoding of pasted text

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I'm using (occasionaly) emacs24.3 on windows 8 and I have a problem of encoding when pasting text, non ascii characters being replaced by their \uucode. My emacs coding default are utf-8

I tried to have a quick look in the apropos help, but nothing matched the keywords i used.

What would be the variable to configure, and the value of system encoding for a windows os?

Here are my settings, which I believe includes the clipboard (i.e., selection): http://stackoverflow.com/a/20736147/2112489 — lawlist, Mar 26 '14 at 00:02

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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After some digging, and orientation from lawlist link

I went for (set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-16le-dos)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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answered Apr 03 '14 at 09:06

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looks like `utf-16le` is sufficient. – rofrol Aug 02 '18 at 18:36

Emacs encoding of pasted text

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