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xwinclip: non-ascii characters truncate copy/paste
- From: Jay Smith <jay at JaySmith dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:59:21 -0400
- Subject: xwinclip: non-ascii characters truncate copy/paste
- Organization: Jay Smith and Associates
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi,
My apologies if this has been previously discussed, but have not found a
recent reference to this problem.
When copying/pasting text containing non-ascii characters, such as å, or è,
or publishers/curly quote marks, etc., when I do the paste the content is
truncated stating at where the non-ascii character would have been; neither
that character or anything after it is pasted. (I have no way of knowing
what was copied into the buffer).
I see this problem when copying/pasting within my linux applications
(specifically Mozilla mail) or when I copy from Mozilla Mail to a Windows
95 application like Notepad.
Since a large portion of my correspondence is with non-American people,
this is a serious productivity problem for me.
My environment is:
Windows 95 running Cygwin ....
XFree86-base 4.2.0-1
-lib 4.2.0-5
-xserv 4.2.0-28 (that's what it says: 28)
-xwinclip 4.2.0-8
I am using XDM to get to RedHat Linux 8 which has been kept up to date,
using up2date, to just BEFORE the point a couple weeks ago that they
screwed things up with the glib disaster. (I feel like I have been
Microsoft'ed; my faith in RH has been devastated.)
Any ideas/suggestions or fixes? If more environment info is needed, please
advise.
Jay
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