On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:29:03PM +0100, Derek Fawcus wrote:
That sounds like a bug in the apple stuff. AFAICR "STRING" encoding means 8 bit latin1 (8859-1) characters. So unless the apple code is complaining about bytes for which there is no 8859-1 character, I'm not sure what's happening.
The behavior is undefined if a STRING is not in the 'Host Portable Character Set', but it's not the X server which causes the problem, it's the owner of the selection which converts it to a STRING from UTF-8. I'd guess that most apps use iconv (ick) for the conversion. Some apps give you a '?', some give \xXXXX, \uXXXX, or the like.
Incidentally, snarfer is still broken in this manner. -- Kris Maglione If at first you don't succeed, try something else.
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