Re: master 9e9bc2af514: Correct documentation of selection-coding-system

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> AFAIK, the new description is also not very accurate in its MS-Windows
> part (see w32select.c:w32-get-clipboard-data), to the degree that it
> might mislead the reader into a completely wrong mental model of what
> happens.  If we want a detailed description of this stuff, we should
> describe what happens on Windows much more accurately.

I wrote this description consulting the doc string of
selection-coding-system rather than the code in w32select.c.  Any
corrections are welcome, of course.

We do want the manual to enter into more detail on this subject, since
many packages are now trying to undertake selection transfer themselves,
being subsequently caught on snags occasioned by the absence of thorough
documentation.  Snags attached to thorny stems of bramble, as it were.