Re: Coding system conversion error

[Jan D.]

> I reconsidered this problem, and now I agree with you.  I
> was at first negative on signaling an error in
> lisp_data_to_selection_data because I was not sure it is
> safe to do that.  But, I found that Fsignal is already use
> in this function.  So, I've just installed these changes.
>
> 2005-02-14  Kenichi Handa  <address@hidden>
>
>         * coding.c (encode_coding_string): Always return a unibyte string.
>         If NOCOPY is nonzero and there's no need of encoding, make STR
>         unibyte directly.
>
>         * xselect.c (lisp_data_to_selection_data): If OBJ is a non-ASCII
>         multibyte string, signal an error instead of aborting.

The error message can be improved if you put it in 
x_handle_selection_request instead (lisp_data_to_selection_data is only 
called from there).  Then you can get the target_symbol in to the error 
text, which otherwise can be hard to know.

        Jan D.