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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>
> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 23:20:06 +0200
>
> >     Test case:
> > 
> >     -- 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
> > 
> > 
> >     Sample data: Try copying and pasting this line elswhere
> 
> I verified it on W98 too. It does NOT occur on Linux. So the problem is
> probably in lies in the NT/W9x clipboard management.

I just tried this in Emacs 21, and the problem doesn't exist there:
taht is, yanking text which includes a null character in the same
session where I kill that text does paste the entire killed text,
including characters beyond the null character.  The clipboard does
truncate the text at the first null, so other applications will not
see the text beyond that; this is a misfeature of the Windows
clipboard.