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25.0.50; Pasting unicode from external applications with mouse wheel on Unix

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Message #112 received at 20906 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mike FABIAN <mfabian <at> redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: schwab <at> suse.de, 20906 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20906: 25.0.50;
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:15:31 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> さんはかきました:

> If the data we receive is different, I guess the only explanation
> could be that we request it in some different way?

Yes, in the old code

   (defun x-get-selection (&optional type data-type)

is called with “'UTF8_STRING” in data-type,
in the new code 

   (defun gui-get-selection (&optional type data-type)

is called with “nil” in data type.

That seems to make the difference, evaluating

    (gui-get-selection 'PRIMARY 'UTF8_STRING)

gets the selection correctly using the new code,  

    (gui-get-selection 'PRIMARY)

produces the problem I am seeing. 

I still now know why this is called differently, looking ...

-- 
Mike FABIAN <mfabian <at> redhat.com>
睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

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