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When I copy data from outside to my emacs, it is garbled

(venv)  tree ./scripts
scripts
├── foo.sh
├── bar.sh
├── start.sh
├── stop.py

However, when I paste this in emacs, I get this:

(venv)  tree ./scripts
scripts
\u251c\u2500\u2500 foo.sh
\u251c\u2500\u2500 bar.sh
\u251c\u2500\u2500 start.sh
\u251c\u2500\u2500 stop.py

I thought this was due to simpleclip. But I also get this in my magit when I issue git standup (using : standup from within emacs)

  0 git … standup
[31mbe041bb[m - fix sort by name; closes #636 [32m(21 hours ago) [1;34m<darshanime>[m
[31mfa80601[m - change vul order [32m(22 hours ago) [1;34m<darshanime>[m

which should be:

(venv)  git standup      
be041bb - fix sort by name; closes #636 (21 hours ago) <darshanime>
fa80601 - change vul order (21 hours ago) <darshanime>
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    The second example seems to be ansi sequences not decoded. Don't know how you issue git standup, I assume from shell, so you may try to (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on).
    – theldoria
    Commented Jun 2, 2017 at 8:43
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    The first example is something different, rather a problem with unicode. Probably the coding-system is wrong, what happens if you use (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) or (prefer-coding-system 'utf-16) in your init.el?
    – theldoria
    Commented Jun 2, 2017 at 8:49
  • in the 1st example, I get the garbled content, even after (prefer-coding-system 'utf-16) and (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8). Commented Jun 2, 2017 at 9:41
  • These might help. (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-language-environment 'utf-8) (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8) (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8) (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
    – fhdhsni
    Commented Jun 2, 2017 at 10:45
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    Possible duplicate of Pasting Text from Clipboard - why ^M instead of linebreaks?
    – rofrol
    Commented Aug 2, 2018 at 18:37

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