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On 16 Jul 2002, Miles Bader wrote:

> It seems as if it's just mozilla's problem, but I'm rather astonished
> that it can't even deal with latin-1 characters.

Me too.  Does setting selection-coding-system to latin-1 change anything 
for Latin-1 characters?

> Also, does anyone know of any low-level tools that cat be used to
> directly send/receive binary data to/from the X cut buffer mechanism, so
> I can reduce the variables to one program?

Not really the answer you wanted, but using raw-text as 
selection-coding-system is one possibility to do something like that.