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24.0.50; Yanking non-ASCII text from other X application leads to unicode escapes

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Message #40 received at 6802-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: David De La Harpe Golden <david <at> harpegolden.net>
Cc: 6802-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6802: 24.0.50; Yanking non-ASCII text from other X application
	leads	to	unicode	escapes
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:05:51 +0100

2010-10-31 02:38, David De La Harpe Golden skrev:
> On 29/10/10 03:18, Kenichi Handa wrote:
>> I wrote:
>>
>>> It seems that overhaul and re-design is necessary.
>>
>> but I don't have a time to work on it at the moment. Any
>> volunteer?
>
> (I suppose I have some familiarity with the general area at this stage, but my
> emacs time is currently rather limited too, until late december. I'm quite
> likely to make some suggestion then ...at least if problems remain - from
> thread "Re: moving x-select*" on emacs-devel a few days ago it looks like
> there is some amount of source cleanup/refactoring ongoing.)

For the purpose of fixing this bug, such an overhaul isn't needed.  I made a 
simple fix that makes mouse-2 use the same mechanism as yank from clipboard 
for X, i.e. try UTF8_STRING and COMPOUND_TEXT before STRING.

	Jan D.

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