On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:56:03PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> rxvt (2.7.5-CVS) selection:
> STRING:        "a"
> TEXT:          "a\033%/1\200\213iso8859-13\2p"
> COMPOUND_TEXT: (same)
[...]
> Now, is STRING supposed to be in local charset or should it always be
> Latin-1?

ICCCM says it's ISO Latin-1 plus TAB and NEWLINE.  Oh, well...

> It looks like most applications only use STRING for paste
> operations, so rxvt's behavior is not very useful even if it is correct.

But rxvt should at least be able to paste the text it selected without
distortions (i.e. use TEXT or COMPOUND_TEXT instead of STRING).

Marius Gedminas
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