From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <4C603A4F.20006@swipnet.se> References: <87mxt1go33.fsf@doganov.org> <83wrrzvj74.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281375525 22158 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2010 17:38:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:38:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kaloian@gnu.org, 6802@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 09 19:38:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiWJ6-0005Lg-S0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:38:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiWJ5-0006oN-8R for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:38:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42777 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiWIs-0006nO-LW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:38:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiWIr-0005NX-AB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:38:26 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiWIr-0005LM-8p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:38:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiW6s-0000IE-3T; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:26:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:26:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6802 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6802-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6802.12813747601119 (code B ref 6802); Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:26:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6802) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Aug 2010 17:26:00 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiW6q-0000I0-0c for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-b12.telenor.se ([62.127.194.21]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiW6o-0000Hu-U3 for 6802@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:25:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb1.telenor.se (ipb1.telenor.se [195.54.127.164]) by smtprelay-b12.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1FCEBCDA for <6802@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:26:40 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.35] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aow7AAbXX0xV4S0jPGdsb2JhbACHZ5hdDAEBAQE1LcRDhToE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,344,1278280800"; d="scan'208";a="117237455" Original-Received: from c-232de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.35]) by ipb1.telenor.se with ESMTP; 09 Aug 2010 19:26:39 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.13] (zeplin [172.20.199.13]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0AC337FA05A; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:26:39 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: <83wrrzvj74.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:26:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39366 Archived-At: 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.