Copying UTF into Emacs

It's been annoying me for ages, but I never really got UTF copy/paste working right in Emacs. Finally (procrastinating from German revision) I found a solution that works for copying from Firefox at least.

The solution is detailed here and I'm eternally grateful. Basically, just put the following code somewhere in your .emacs:

(setq x-select-request-type '(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING))


And, voila, umlauts (like ö) and I presume strange characters from other languages will appear in all their glory!