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28.0.50; (error "Selection owner couldn't convert" UTF8_STRING)

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 47642 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Subject: bug#47642: 28.0.50; (error "Selection owner couldn't convert" UTF8_STRING)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:31:32 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> Here is a complete test case with 100% reproducibility:

I tried the recipe with Gimp 2.10.22 on Debian/bullseye, but I just get
nil, so I guess there's some difference in how this is handled...

> I wonder why this error should be raised at all
> instead of just returning nil?

That's a really good point -- this low-level error surely can't be of
interest to the Emacs user.  So you're right -- it should just return
nil here.

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