Copy/Paste problems when contains non-ascii characters

[Jay Smith <jay at JaySmith dot com>]

Hi,

My copy/paste behavior in MOZILLA running on RedHat 8 LINUX has gone from 
bad to worse when I upgraded the Mozilla from 1.2.x to 1.4.

Important: The Mozilla is LINUX Mozilla running on an RH8 server.  I am 
sitting at a Windows 95 PC, using Cygwin/XFree86 to run an X session on the 
PC.  I am sitting at a PC, not at a Linux box.  (Most people don't get this 
and thus reply using wrong assumptions.)

WHEN RUNNING Linux Mozilla ON PC USING CYGWIN:

(old) MOZ 1.2.x: When I copied text that contained a non-ascii typical 
European or Scandinavian character from an existing email and PASTED INTO A 
MOZILLA MAIL COMPOSE window, the text up to, but NOT including, the 
character would copy AND PASTE. That was bad, but at least you got 
something (the text before the character).

(new) MOZ 1.4: However, now, if the copy contains such a character, NOTHING 
gets pasted into A MOZILLA MAIL COMPOSE window.  It changed from partial to 
nothing.

I AM still able to paste full and properly into windows applications from 
Mozilla, including such common European and Scandinvian characters.

Because there has been no change to the Cygwin installation on this PC, I
don't think the *change* in the problem is related to that.  However, the 
root of the problem seems to be related to Cygwin.

By contrast, IF I AM WORKING DIRECTLY/PHYSICALLY ON THE LINUX SERVER:

Mozilla 1.2.x or 1.4: I *CAN* fully and properly cut/paste the very same text.

MY ENVIRONMENT IS:

Server: Red Hat Linux 8

Workstation: Windows 95 running Cygwin ....
(I think these are the version numbers of what I have installed; they were 
as of April 2003 and I don't think I have installed any new Cygwin stuff on 
this machine since then -- but I don't know how to find out what versions I 
am running. How do I?)
  XFree86-base     4.2.0-1
         -lib      4.2.0-5
         -xserv    4.2.0-28
         -xwinclip 4.2.0-8

Jay
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