Re: [XForms] Clipboard copying is not UTF-8 aware

[Рысь]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 14:17:54 -0800 (PST)
Bill Unruh <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Рысь wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > I watched XForms for a long time and waited for UTF-8 support in it,
> > because otherwise XForms is more saner.
> >
> > Here is a bug I experienced while trying to port my program to
> > XForms:
> >
> > Entering Russian texts into XForms text edits works nice and I see
> > proper Russian glyphs. However when I try to copy text from the text
> > edits, I get a garbled characters in place where Russian text
> > should be.
> >
> > For example, I input: "тестtest", try to copy it with selecting
> > anything and I paste the contents with middle click in gtk2 program
> > and I get this: "Ñ?еÑ?Ñ?test". However when I paste it back to
> > XForms I get proper Russian text again.
> 
> Sounds to me like a bug in the gtk2 program, not displaying utf
> properly. After all when you paste it back into xforms it displays
> properly. Ie, this would seen to have nothing to do with xforms.
> 
> (Note my vi editor also obviously does not display utf8 properly
> either. )

I tested now with programs not linked with gtk2 in any way.
rxvt-unicode, plain paste into terminal and paste into Vim - same
issue.

> >
> > My clipboard agent shows same garbled characters when I copy
> > non-ASCII texts from XForms.
> >
> > Is this a sign of misconfiguration or it's just a bug that should be
> > fixed?
> >
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