Re: [bug #4658] Broken gpbs when doing pb operations between GS and X

[Fred Kiefer]

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> I did my orignal copying from the UTF8 page with konqueror, which does 
> not have this problem, doing it with Mozilla showed that we still need 
> to support more of the X selection interface. The error I do get here is 
> a bit clearer than the one you list:
>
> Unsupported data type 'INCR' from X selection.
>
> And INCR is a rather complex X selection transfer mode, which really has 
> not been implemented up to now (Checkout section 2.7.2 of the ICCCM 
> standard). I may look into this later on, but any help here is really 
> appreciated.
>

Ok, as nobody did step up I tried it myself and lets all have a look at 
the results.
First the good news: GNUstep now supports the INCR transfer for the X 
selection (and a lot more smaller ICCCM stuff was added in the same go). 
But there is of course also a bit of bad news, which is that this 
specific page still cannot be transfered, which is according to my 
findings caused by the Unicode conversion inside of NSString which 
fails. This may be a bug or caused by the fact that this page includes 
characters that cannot be expressed as UCS-2. This is a known limitation 
of our current NSString implementation.
There is of course still plenty of room for improvements on xpbs...
For now please test again, but remember there is a lot more that may go 
wrong when no paste result shows up than just the X selection interaction.

Fred