Re: emacs clipboard handling for X broken?

[Alex Schroeder]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> In article <address@hidden>, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>  > Please try to set x-select-request-type to a symbol
>>>  > UTF8_STRING or COMPOUND_TEXT.
>>>  
> I see.  So, your mozilla produces bogus sequence upon a
> request of COMPOUND_TEXT.  Have you tried a newer mozilla?  

I'm using Firefox 0.9 and pasting characters that can be encoded as
Latin-1 works with setting x-select-request-type to either value.  The
default is nil, and that works as well.

When trying to paste chinese characters from an UTF-8 encoded page,
I get the following results:

(setq x-select-request-type 'UTF8_STRING)
 -> works.

(setq x-select-request-type 'COMPOUND_TEXT)
 -> pastes entry from kill-ring

(setq x-select-request-type nil)
 -> pastes unicode escapes like this: \u5167\u5bb9\u76ee\u9304\u64f4\u5145

This reminds me of the native format used by Java properties files:
They are Latin-1 encoded, and use unicode escapes for everything
else.  Very weird...   :(

My Emacs from CVS was built 2004-08-12.

Alex.
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