Re: default charset for text/html selection in X11

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> It does.

Thanks.  The bug lies in Chromium, not Emacs.

>     Po Lu> The ICCCM clearly states that:
>
>     Po Lu>   STRING as a type or a target specifies the ISO Latin-1 character set
>     Po Lu>   plus the control characters TAB (octal 11) and NEWLINE (octal 12.)
>     Po Lu>   The spacing interpretation of TAB is context dependent.  Other ASCII
>     Po Lu>   control characters are explicitly not included in STRING at the
>     Po Lu>   present time.
>
> Iʼm not about to contradict the ICCCM, but `gui-get-selection' does
> the following
>
>                     ;; Guess at the charset for types like text/html
>                     ;; -- it can be anything, and different
>                     ;; applications use different encodings.
>                     ((string-match-p "\\`text/" (symbol-name data-type))
>                      (decode-coding-string
>                       data (car (detect-coding-string data))))
>                     ;; Do nothing.
>
> I took a closer look, and `yank-media' does the wrong thing, but
> `(yank-media-types t)' and selecting "text/html" does the right
> thing. The difference is that the former uses
> `gui-backend-get-selection', and the latter uses `gui-get-selection',
> and thus does the auto-detection.

If this does solve the problem, please modify yank-media in such a
manner.  It will make Emacs more robust against non-compliant selection
owners, which is always welcome.