Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > But the encoding used seemingly depends on the source application - > Geany (GTK 2, I think) seemingly sends UTF8 text anyway, whereas > Firefox escapes the unicode character. So I don't think we can > correctly decode the STRING value in all cases.
Ah, ok. IIUC, support for UTF8_STRING would also be in the realm of the source application, right? If so, I think we should use something more involved where we try UTF8_STRING first, and fall back to STRING if the application doesn't support that. This I could also accept for 2.7, since it "shouldn't" have a potential for breakage. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14777> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
