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clipboard-format: preference variable
Default value: 0
By default, when Epsilon for DOS puts characters
on the MS-Windows clipboard, it lets Windows translate the characters
from the OEM/DOS character set to Windows ANSI. Epsilon needs to do
this so that national characters display correctly. When Epsilon
retrieves characters from the clipboard, it has Windows perform the
reverse translation.
But each character set contains some characters that the other does
not, so that copying characters in one direction and then back can
change the characters. Instead, you can tell Epsilon to copy
characters without translating them. Then copying back and forth will
never change the characters, but Epsilon for DOS and Windows won't
display the same symbols for any character except the original ASCII
printable characters (32 to 127).
Setting this variable to 7 makes Epsilon tell Windows that all text in
Epsilon is in the OEM character set, and Windows must translate
between OEM/DOS and Windows ANSI. Setting the variable to 1 makes
Epsilon tell Windows that all text in Epsilon uses the Windows ANSI
character set, so no translating is necessary. The default value of
zero makes Epsilon for DOS always translate, and makes Epsilon for
Windows translate only when you've selected an OEM font. (Epsilon
uses the value of this variable as the "clipboard format" to ask
Windows for; you can see the raw clipboard data Windows uses by
setting the variable to other values, if you like. Epsilon for Unix
ignores this variable.)
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