GNU bug report logs - #6802
24.0.50; Yanking non-ASCII text from other X application leads to unicode escapes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kaloian Doganov <kaloian <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 6635

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 6802 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: kaloian <at> gnu.org, 6802 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
Subject: Re: bug#6802: 24.0.50; Yanking non-ASCII text from other X application
	leads to	unicode	escapes
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:26:39 +0200


Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-08-09 18.34:

> Why does x-get-selection default to 'STRING?  Is that sensible
> behavior?
>
>> -  (let ((primary (x-get-selection 'PRIMARY)))
>> +  (let ((primary (x-get-selection 'PRIMARY 'TEXT)))
>
> Would it make sense to have x-get-selection default to 'TEXT instead?

TEXT can be in any encoding which can make it diffcult.  Nowdays I think the 
default should be UTF8_STRING, and if that fails, try TEXT and then STRING.

But I think the application should not offer STRING (which implies Latin-1) if 
the data isn't in latin-1.

	Jan D.
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