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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>, 47642@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47642: 28.0.50; (error "Selection owner couldn't convert" UTF8_STRING)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:31:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6q2tzcb.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0p73e1n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Mon,  12 Apr 2021 19:03:48 +0300")

Juri Linkov <juri@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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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-13  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-07 17:51 bug#47642: 28.0.50; (error "Selection owner couldn't convert" UTF8_STRING) Jean Louis
2021-04-07 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-13  5:37   ` Jean Louis
2021-04-07 19:58 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-12 10:11   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-12 16:03     ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-13  7:31       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-04-13 16:20         ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-14 18:23           ` Juri Linkov

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