why do the umlauts look so funny that you copied from mozilla or so
and try to paste into emacs? e.g. ^[%/1\200\214iso8859-15^Bö instead
of plain ö.
Well, I don't have the answer yet -- why this happens, but figured out that this can be changed by changing the coding system for X-selections:
C-x C-m X RET compound-text-with-extensions RET
or
C-x RET x RET compound-text-with-extensions RET
The key combinations C-c C-m and C-c RET are equivalent.
The capital X just changes the Coding system for the next X
selection. For a general change (in the current session) use x
instead of X, as in the second example.
And how do I change this as an option in the .emacs file, once and
forever?