Re: MML charset tag regression

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <E19RZui-0003SC-EG@fencepost.gnu.org>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>     I've just found that selection_data_to_lisp_data
> returns a cons when a selection data is 32-bit number.  I
> think it is better not to give two meanings for a cons
> type even if we can distinguish them by checking the type
> of the car part.

> That is a valid argument.

>     My opinion now is that using text-property both in
> x-get-selection-internal and x-get-selection is better.
> If you don't have a farther counterargument, I'll install
> a change along my original line.

> Please do.

Just done.  It is better to declare x-select-request-type
with defcustom, but I don't know how to write :type code.
Someone please work on it.

And, I added this in etc/NEWS. 

Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/etc/NEWS,v
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*** NEWS	5 Jun 2003 23:56:32 -0000	1.823
--- NEWS	17 Jun 2003 11:00:53 -0000	1.824
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*** 364,369 ****
--- 364,374 ----
  X selections.  If you don't want this support, set
  `selection-coding-system' to `compound-text'.
  
+ ** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs
+ requests X selection.  The default value is nil, which means that
+ Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING,
+ and use the more appropriately result.
+ 
  +++
  ** The parameters of automatic hscrolling can now be customized.
  The variable `hscroll-margin' determines how many columns away from

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org