From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs puts binary junk into the clipboard, marking it as text Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:14:03 +0900 Message-ID: References: <1158280855.14121.69.camel@chrislap.madeupdomain.com> <450A514E.6020205@swipnet.se> <450BE084.10905@swipnet.se> <450C3380.2050008@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158664568 13504 80.91.229.2 (19 Sep 2006 11:16:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: christopher.ian.moore@gmail.com, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, ihs_4664@yahoo.com, richard.stallman@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 19 13:16:06 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GPda4-0001BX-Q6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:16:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GPda4-0000oV-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GPdZU-0000KL-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:15:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GPdZS-0000HW-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GPdZS-0000H2-Hq; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [150.29.246.133] (helo=mx1.aist.go.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GPdcV-0001Yd-Ea; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:18:31 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.12]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id k8JBFHqm016196; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:15:17 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id k8JBFG6t028644; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:15:16 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GPdYB-0003iB-00; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:14:03 +0900 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:54:34 -0400) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/22.0.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60008 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:14001 Archived-At: In article , Stefan Monnier 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? --- Kenichi Handa handa@m17n.org