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On 16 Jul 2002, Miles Bader wrote:

> Interestingly enough, if I cut the above `<box>$(B3NG'<box>(B'
> gibberish out of mozilla, and paste _that_ into emacs, it looks correct
> in emacs!  So mozilla is apparently just pasting the raw encoded
> characters from X, without interpretation.

Yes, it looks like a ctext-encoded string.  You can verify that by 
setting a breakpoint in x_encode_text and looking at the string it is 
about to send to X.

Weird.  What system is that?