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diff --git a/lisp/select.el b/lisp/select.el index 2b97ca483b1..23541963438 100644 --- a/lisp/select.el +++ b/lisp/select.el @@ -28,8 +28,15 @@ ;;; Code: (defcustom selection-coding-system nil - "Coding system for communicating with other X clients. + "Coding system for communicating with other programs. +For MS-Windows and MS-DOS: +When sending or receiving text via selection and clipboard, the text +is encoded or decoded by this coding system. The default value is +the current system default encoding on 9x/Me, `utf-16le-dos' +\(Unicode) on NT/W2K/XP, and `iso-latin-1-dos' on MS-DOS. + +For X Windows: When sending text via selection and clipboard, if the target data-type matches with the type of this coding system, it is used for encoding the text. Otherwise (including the case that this |