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["Sam Liddicott" <address@hidden>]

On 11/03/11 08:54, Jakub Kuźniar wrote:
> 2011/3/11 Sam Liddicott <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
>
>
>     On 10/03/11 22:42, Jakub Kuźniar wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
>         I have a problem using TeXmacs with polish language.
>         The problem concerns doing copy/paste text from other programs,
>         into TeXmacs.  After pasting, the polish diactric letters are
>         shown as
>         question marks.
>
>         sample of pasted text:
>
>         "Indywidualne ?rodki ostro?no?ci"
>
>         When using Paste from ->Verbatim
>         text is also displayed not correctly but there are used
>         some other unreadable letters.
>
>         Everything is fine when I write polish letters in TeXmacs. It
>         displays
>         correctly polish letters.  What is interesting that when I
>         save such file, and
>         open it with e.g kwrite, I cannot match encoding. This is
>         neither UTF-8 nor
>         iso8859-2.
>
>         TeXmacs version: 1.0.7.9, qt
>
>
>     I think TeXmacs uses Cork encoding which has some symbols that
>     UTF-8 doesn't even have.
>
>     I think if you cut-n-paste UTF-8 it will work - do you know that
>     your source is UTF-8? What OS are you using?
>
>     And also if you save as tml format (TeXmacs-xml) the text will be
>     UTF-8 but of course the full format will be XML.
>
>     Sam
>
> Hello ,
> thank you for resposne.
> I am using opensuse 11.3, utf-8 here is a default enconding. I am 
> doing copy paste from different  sources,
> text editor like KDE kwrite where I explicitly set UTF-8 enconfig, or 
> from the web browser or libreoffice writer.
> The TeXmacs exhibit the same behaviour in native windows port. The 
> polish diactric letters are displayed as question marks
> after pasting. TeXmacs on Linux behaves in that way since many 
> years  as I remember. I always try to rewrite some part of the polish 
> text wchich I need to paste into TeXmacs document.
> I will test saving as tml this evening.

Now I think some more, what I do when I want to import UTF-8 symbols 
into texmacs is use openoffice-writer to select the symbol, I then 
cut-n-paste to gedit and save that as text, and import it into TeXmacs 
as a new document and then cut-n-paste from that int my main document.

Sam