Re: Emacs puts binary junk into the clipboard, marking it as text

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <450C3380.2050008@swipnet.se>, "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:

> I've checked in a fix that changes UTF8_STRING to STRING if the data 
> doesn't look like UTF8.  However, this might give errors too.  The only 
> way to be sure to copy raw binary data correctly is by adding a new type 
> (like application-specific/octet-stream).   But if we do that, nobody 
> will be able to get data from Emacs, as such a type is not standard and 
> unsupported.  Copy-paste with raw binary data is just something most 
> apps don't do.

AFAIK, only when TEXT is requested, an selection owner can
choose the returning type from STRING, COMPOUND_TEXT, or
UTF8_STRING.  When UTF8_STRING is requested, we should
return it or return nothing.

And, if Emacs owns a unibyte string, perhaps the right thing
is to make it multibyte according to the current
lang. env. (by string-make-multibyte) at first, then encode
it by utf-8.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org