Robert Brady wrote on 2000-09-04 14:34 UTC:
> The following comment from [xterm] button.c, sheds some light on the issue.
>
> /* Cutbuffers are untyped, so in the wide chars case, we
> just store the raw UTF-8 data. It is unlikely it
> will be useful to anyone. */
>
> But then xterm goes ahead and interprets the contents of the stuff it put
> in the cut buffer as Latin1!
Have you studied
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/UTF8-selections.text
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#x11
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/R6.4/xc/doc/hardcopy/ICCCM/icccm.PS.gz
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/R6.4/xc/doc/hardcopy/CTEXT/ctext.PS.gz
Markus
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