Dave Angel: > I know that the clipboard has type tags, but I haven't looked at them in > so long that I forget what they look like. For text, is it just ASCII > and Unicode? Or are there other possible encodings that the source and > sink negotiate?
The normal thing seen is that the clipboard differentiates between Unicode text and locale-dependent 8 bit text. Depending on platform Unicode text may be in UTF-8 (Linux) or UTF-16 (Windows). The encoding of 8-bit text strings is not well defined and is normally assumed to be compatible with whatever is currently in the document or the current user interface encoding. Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
