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27.0.50; (gui-get-selection nil 'text/html) returns mis-decoded text

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Message #41 received at 31149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 31149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA
Subject: Re: bug#31149: 27.0.50; (gui-get-selection nil 'text/html) returns
 mis-decoded text
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 13:21:13 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA,  31149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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?

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