bug#6802: 24.0.50; Yanking non-ASCII text from other X application leads to unicode escapes

[Jan Djärv]

2010-10-31 02:38, David De La Harpe Golden skrev:
> On 29/10/10 03:18, Kenichi Handa wrote:
> > I wrote:
> >
> > > It seems that overhaul and re-design is necessary.
> >
> > but I don't have a time to work on it at the moment. Any
> > volunteer?
>
> (I suppose I have some familiarity with the general area at this stage, but my
> emacs time is currently rather limited too, until late december. I'm quite
> likely to make some suggestion then ...at least if problems remain - from
> thread "Re: moving x-select*" on emacs-devel a few days ago it looks like
> there is some amount of source cleanup/refactoring ongoing.)

For the purpose of fixing this bug, such an overhaul isn't needed.  I made a 
simple fix that makes mouse-2 use the same mechanism as yank from clipboard 
for X, i.e. try UTF8_STRING and COMPOUND_TEXT before STRING.

        Jan D.