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More work and shopping...
Mar. 8th, 2013 08:31 pmMore work came in today. I was grateful that the deadlines were generous, as it allowed me to accompany Galina on a trek "across town" (about 30 miles each way) to do some overdue shopping.
In between, I continued to research the text encoding issue, and although it was educational, the net result is a realization on my part that I'm going to have to understand a lot more about what's happening behind the scenes to fix the misbehavior. I don't know the extent to which other operating systems are afflicted with encoding issues, but I do know that whatever interface Windows applications show to the OS in terms of text encoding, the encoding used inside of a program need not (and often is not) the same.
In other words, it may look like UTF-8 from the outside, but it's probably just CP-1251 on the inside (the text being returned by getSelection() being a case in point).
One approach to solving my problem would be to try to get the browser to hand over a usable UTF-8 string; another would be to have emacs convert what the browser hands over into UTF-8.
Time to go see what's on the Tube, and then to bed.
Cheers...
In between, I continued to research the text encoding issue, and although it was educational, the net result is a realization on my part that I'm going to have to understand a lot more about what's happening behind the scenes to fix the misbehavior. I don't know the extent to which other operating systems are afflicted with encoding issues, but I do know that whatever interface Windows applications show to the OS in terms of text encoding, the encoding used inside of a program need not (and often is not) the same.
In other words, it may look like UTF-8 from the outside, but it's probably just CP-1251 on the inside (the text being returned by getSelection() being a case in point).
One approach to solving my problem would be to try to get the browser to hand over a usable UTF-8 string; another would be to have emacs convert what the browser hands over into UTF-8.
Time to go see what's on the Tube, and then to bed.
Cheers...
