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[Jakub Kuźniar <address@hidden>]

Dnia piątek, 11 marca 2011 o 10:05:52 Sam Liddicott napisał(a):
> 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

Sam,

Thank you, your workaround works. Also after saving as *.tmml, the letters 
are 
saved as utf8, but this has no practical sense for me, I was just courious. 
Now I  have some way do import  bigger portions of text into texmacs.

I am wondering, that problem with copy paste, it is some kind of a bug, or a 
technical problem for which some kind of solution should be implemented ?

I am not sure but just after starting to play with texmacs long time ago, 
it was about year 2002, I think that this copy paste functionality worked 
with 
texts in non latin encondings. But maybe I am wrong...

Kuba