Bug#372278: xserver-xorg-input-all: using clipboard with >8 bits characters doesn't work
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:02:01AM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-input-all
> Severity: normal
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> Hello.
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> I'm not sure which package should I choose for this particular problem
> cause I'm not aware of internal mechanismes in X.org.
>
> Please forward/reassign this bugreport to the correct place if this is
> wrong one.
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> The problem is when I try to mark some text (in Firefox for example) and it
> contains some characters like apostrophe wrote using entities like ’.
>
> X clipboard seems to have problems with such characters and it's not
> possible to paste marked text to the other application like xterm.
>
> I suppose it's problem with UTF handling, but it's not possible to paste
> even broken text without that >8 bit characters. Middle mouse button
> doesn't paste anything. Maybe it should simply strip >8 bits characters and
> paste only these that are correct for 8bit encoding.
Does this happen with something other than xterm? Say gnome-terminal? This
could very well be a result of #369419, which I'm going to upload a fix for
ASAP.
- David Nusinow
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