Re: bug: 20.7/w2k Mouse copy/paste does not work for NULL characters

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Jari Aalto+mail wrote:

>     -- Draw region, where character NULL (ascii 0) is included. You can
>        find such a file e.g by copying some of the content from
>        windows .lnk file.
> 
>     -- Paste selected characters, which includes NULL.
> 
>     Symptoms:
> 
>     -- Paste fails to insert copied characters after NULL

This is a known problem: the Windows clipboard stores text as 
null-terminate (a.k.a. ASCIIZ) string, so you cannot have any characters 
after the first null character in the clipboard.

However, IIRC, the Windows port stopped copying text into the clipboard 
if the text is yanked in the same session (the DOS port was doing that on 
Windows since long ago).  Perhaps this is only in Emacs 21, though.