GNU bug report logs - #51685
29.0.50; Yanking from clipboard broken (Win10)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 10:59:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: arash <at> gnu.org, 51685 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51685: 29.0.50; Yanking from clipboard broken (Win10)
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:41:19 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> The existing code carefully side-steps the decoding by looking at the
> foreign-selection property on the string, which the Windows code
> doesn't set.  But your changes removed that test, and thus caused the
> clipboard text to be decoded on Windows.

Ah, I see.  Thanks for the explanation.  I plan on getting my Windows
VMs up and running again (I'm in the middle of switching some computers
here) so that I can do some testing on Windows too, and then I'll
attempt the fix again.  😀

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