diff lisp/select.el @ 111136:bc1274182cc8

Sync docs of selection-coding-system between C and Lisp. * src/w16select.c (syms_of_win16select) <selection-coding-system>: * src/w32select.c (syms_of_w32select) <selection-coding-system>: Sync docs with select.el. * lisp/select.el (selection-coding-system): Sync doc with C versions.

--- a/lisp/select.el	Sat Oct 23 19:13:37 2010 -0700
+++ b/lisp/select.el	Sat Oct 23 19:22:43 2010 -0700
@@ -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