Subject: Re: bug#31149: 27.0.50; (gui-get-selection nil 'text/html) returns mis-decoded text

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 13:21:13 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:02:42 +0200
> 
> (defun ewp-yank-html ()
> 
> [...]
> 
>   (let ((data (loop for type in '(PRIMARY CLIPBOARD)
> 		    for data = (x-get-selection-internal type 'text/html)
> 
> [...]
> 
>       ;; Somehow the selection is UTF-16 when selecting text in
>       ;; Firefox.
>       (decode-coding-string data 'utf-16-le)

And you do that for _every_ text you get from the clipboard?  Or do
you have some means of detecting those selected in Firefox?

In general, if the text is already decoded, I don't expect this extra
decoding to do anything bad, does it?