From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
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: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:10:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwvq4ix4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C60EE6C.9040009@swipnet.se> (Jan D.'s message of "Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:15:08 +0200")
"Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> On 2010-08-10 04:29, Kenichi Handa wrote:
>> In article<4C603A4F.20006@swipnet.se>, Jan Djärv<jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>>> Nowdays I think the
>>> default should be UTF8_STRING, and if that fails, try TEXT and then STRING.
>>
>> Why not COMPOUND_TEXT instead of TEXT above? Please see the
>> docstring of x-select-request-type.
>
> I forgot about that. It is better to try that before TEXT.
>
>>
>> Anyway, the current selection-related codes mix an abstract
>> layer (something like interprogram-cut/paste-function) and
>> X-specific layer in a chaos manner. It seems that overhaul
>> and re-design is necessary.
>>
>
> It is a bit of a mess. Separation of interprogram cut/paste and X selections
> would be nice.
>
> Jan D.
This is (and has been for quite a while now) a rather show-stopperish
bug. Is anybody working on fixing it?
(A refresher: you now get \u0ca0_\u0ca0 instead of ಠ_ಠ when pasting from
another X app.)
Štěpán
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-28 12:10 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
2010-08-10 2:29 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-08-10 6:15 ` Jan D.
2010-10-28 12:10 ` Štěpán Němec [this message]
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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