Re: Emacs puts binary junk into the clipboard, marking it as text

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <jwv3baojfj7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > AFAIK, only when TEXT is requested, an selection owner can
> > choose the returning type from STRING, COMPOUND_TEXT, or
> > UTF8_STRING.  When UTF8_STRING is requested, we should
> > return it or return nothing.

> Also IIRC a perfectly valid utf-8 buffer may contain eight-bit-* chars, use
> to keep track of valid unicode chars that have no corresponding character in
> emacs-mule.  So the presence of eight-bit-* chars does not imply that the
> utf-8 encoded form of the text will contain an invalid utf-8 byte sequence.

Yes, but such eight-bit-* chars can be detected by checking
`untranslated-utf-8' property.

> > And, if Emacs owns a unibyte string, perhaps the right thing
> > is to make it multibyte according to the current
> > lang. env. (by string-make-multibyte) at first, then encode
> > it by utf-8.

> That sounds terribly fragile/buggy.

Then, what do you think Emacs should do in such a case?

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org