From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: kaloian@gnu.org, 6802@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6802: 24.0.50; Yanking non-ASCII text from other X application leads to unicode escapes
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:26:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C603A4F.20006@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wrrzvj74.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-08-09 18.34:
> Why does x-get-selection default to 'STRING? Is that sensible
> behavior?
>
>> - (let ((primary (x-get-selection 'PRIMARY)))
>> + (let ((primary (x-get-selection 'PRIMARY 'TEXT)))
>
> Would it make sense to have x-get-selection default to 'TEXT instead?
TEXT can be in any encoding which can make it diffcult. Nowdays I think the
default should be UTF8_STRING, and if that fails, try TEXT and then STRING.
But I think the application should not offer STRING (which implies Latin-1) if
the data isn't in latin-1.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-09 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-05 13:56 bug#6802: 24.0.50; Yanking non-ASCII text from other X application leads to unicode escapes Kaloian Doganov
2010-08-09 1:46 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-09 2:57 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-08-09 14:06 ` bug#6802: 24.0.50; Yanking non-ASCII text from other X application leads to unicodeescapes Drew Adams
2010-08-09 16:34 ` bug#6802: 24.0.50; Yanking non-ASCII text from other X application leads to unicode escapes Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-09 17:26 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2010-08-10 2:29 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-08-10 6:15 ` Jan D.
2010-10-28 12:10 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-29 2:18 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-10-31 0:38 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-10-31 16:05 ` Jan Djärv
2010-11-05 11:58 ` Kenichi Handa
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