Re: PRIMARY selection doesn't work

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>]

> From: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer)
> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:49:27 -0400
> 
>     EZ> Do you see any change in behavior if you change the value of
>     EZ> selection-coding-system?  For example, what happens if you type
>     EZ> "C-x RET x latin-1 RET" and then mark a region of pure ASCII
>     EZ> characters and type "M-w"--can you paste that text into other
>     EZ> applications?  Please also try with "C-x RET x compound-text RET".
> 
> Absolutely -- it starts working!
> Both latin-1 and compound-text work.

Please see if the patch below solves the problem if you revert
selection-coding-system to compound-text-with-extensions.  Please try
that both with pure ASCII text and some non-ASCII text in the
selection.

TIA

Index: src/xselect.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/emacs/src/xselect.c,v
retrieving revision 1.113
diff -c -p -r1.113 xselect.c
*** src/xselect.c	4 Mar 2002 23:40:59 -0000	1.113
--- src/xselect.c	4 May 2002 07:29:54 -0000
*************** lisp_data_to_selection_data (display, ob
*** 1765,1775 ****
        *data_ret = x_encode_text (obj, Vnext_selection_coding_system, 1,
  				 (int *) size_ret, &stringp);
        *nofree_ret = (*data_ret == XSTRING (obj)->data);
!       if (EQ (Vnext_selection_coding_system,
! 	      Qcompound_text_with_extensions))
! 	type = QCOMPOUND_TEXT;
!       else if (NILP (type))
! 	type = (stringp ? QSTRING : QCOMPOUND_TEXT);
        Vlast_coding_system_used = (*nofree_ret
  				  ? Qraw_text
  				  : Vnext_selection_coding_system);
--- 1765,1780 ----
        *data_ret = x_encode_text (obj, Vnext_selection_coding_system, 1,
  				 (int *) size_ret, &stringp);
        *nofree_ret = (*data_ret == XSTRING (obj)->data);
!       if (NILP (type))
! 	{
! 	  if (stringp && *nofree_ret)
! 	    type = QSTRING;
! 	  else if (EQ (Vnext_selection_coding_system,
! 		       Qcompound_text_with_extensions))
! 	    type = QCOMPOUND_TEXT;
! 	  else
! 	    type = (stringp ? QSTRING : QCOMPOUND_TEXT);
! 	}
        Vlast_coding_system_used = (*nofree_ret
  				  ? Qraw_text
  				  : Vnext_selection_coding_system);